Many A Bright Star

Keats, as portrayed by Whishaw, has the self-possession of a middle-aged adult, the affected detachment of an artist and the eerie self-absorption of a child.

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Fanny's "meet-cute" — to use the classic Hollywood term — is however not just with him; she also encounters Keats's possessive and boorish best friend Charles Brown, played by the American actor Paul Schneider with a Scottish accent that British audiences may need to indulge a little. The same goes for his tartan waistcoat and trews. Brown's appearance in the story alerts us to the fact that this is a love triangle. Grumpy, cigar-smoking Brown is quite as in love with Keats as Fanny is.

Desperate to maintain their fusty bachelor idyll together, idling, musing and writing, he is justifiably afraid that marriage will condemn his friend to poverty and exterminate his poetic gift. Brown even sends Fanny a valentine card for reasons that he can scarcely understand himself: Is it an imitation of his revered friend — an attempt to get closer to Keats by behaving as he does?

Or merely an admission of his own loneliness? For a while, Fanny penetrates the mystery of Keats's world and their affair proceeds: It is also very physical. But how can things proceed when Keats cannot afford to marry and is already married to his work?

He is moreover very ill, and his protective chorus of jealous critical admirers is never far away, fearing another English winter for their hero. They club together to buy a ticket for him to travel to the healthier climes of Italy, and the simple, abysmal fact of having spent all that money for him to go away crushes all hope for their love. It was the illness of Keats' younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touched by Fanny's efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry.

By the time Fanny's alarmed mother and Keats' best friend Brown realized their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensation, "I have the feeling as if I were dissolving," Keats wrote her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted.

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Only Keats' illness proved insurmountable. Biography , Drama , Romance. See All Details and Credits. Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan.

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Masterfully put-together, made with confidence, intelligence and command. Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum. Campion's big-sisterly encouragement of Cornish's lovely, openhearted performance -- and Whishaw's well-matched response -- results in a character instantly, intimately recognizable to anyone remembering her own first love. The New York Times - A. Campion, with her restless camera movements and off-center close-ups, films history in the present tense, and her wild vitality makes this movie romantic in every possible sense of the word.

Christian Science Monitor - Peter Rainer. For a movie so sensuously mounted, it's remarkably grounded. Mainly, though, it's the exquisite restraint - both of Cornish's performance and Campion's direction - that gives the film its power. ReelViews - James Berardinelli.

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Bright Star is a nice ode to the poet, the love of his life, and the period in which he lived. Time Out - Keith Uhlich. An intimate and flawless film worthy of the highest praise This movie is quite, subtle and masterfully directed, written, and acted. Ben Whishaw is a marvel. GaryM Oct 6, Beautifully realized film, so tender and delicate.

Both performances are deep and moving.



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Its subtlety may go over some heads but I found it to be an exceptional film. I watched this years ago just cause, I wasn't sure what I was going to get. This was a profoundly touching movie.

I'm not sure why I see reviews bashing it for being "too slow". Come on it's a drama and it's about real life. What do you think is going to happen? Some action packed scene with I watched this years ago just cause, I wasn't sure what I was going to get. Some action packed scene with explosions? No it's not that kind of movie.