Bright Star PG
First love burns brightest.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 26, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ben Whishaw & Abbie Cornish | |
Performer: | Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox & Thomas Brodie-Sangster | |
Directed by | Jane Campion | |
Screenwriting by | Jane Campion | |
Composition by | Mark Bradshaw | |
Produced by | Jan Chapman & Caroline Hewitt | |
Director of Photography: | Greig Fraser | |
Executive Production by | François Ivernel, Cameron McCracken, Christine Langan & David M. Thompson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Jane Campion's film is as lyrical as you might expect but it's also enlivened with a bracing air of irreverence.
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Sydney Morning Herald
The movie really belongs to Brawne, played with mesmerizing vitality and heart-stopping grace by Abbie Cornish.
New York Times
Campion, who won fans with The Piano (1993) and lost them with the dismal In the Cut (2003) here returns to the top of her form.
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Film.com
BRIGHT STAR, Jane Campion's rapturous ode to tragic love, radiates beauty that's at once extravagant and spare, which is altogether fitting for its subjects.
Washington Post
Rating: 4/5 --
The film succeeds in making the lustre of Keats' words come borne out of the inspiration he finds in his love for Fanny Brawn and the transient beauty of the natural world.
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Patrick Nabarro
4 stars out of 5 -- Campion's innate sense of storytelling technique meshes the strands together, all adding up to a study in passion and tragedy that vigorously holds fast to period sensibilities and so keeps an audience firmly in its embrace.
Box Office
Rating: 4/5 --
The love story between John and Fanny fuels the narrative and draws in the viewer - we root for their happiness even though we know only heartbreak lies ahead.
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Product Description:
Jane Campion's literary biopic tells the true story of Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), a 23-year-old Londoner in 1818 whose independent streak manifests itself through an intense interest and love for fashion and dressmaking. Her neighbor, the struggling but gifted young poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw), underestimates her intelligence because he believes she's frivolous, and she, having no interest in literature, seems thoroughly disinterested in him. However, Fanny attempts to help the Keats family when John's brother becomes gravely ill, and in order to express his gratitude John agrees to teach her poetry -- leading Fanny and John to quickly fall deeply and profoundly in love with each other. Although they wish to wed, his lack of finances and his writing partner (Paul Schneider) -- who believes she is nothing more than an unwelcome distraction -- keep the two from marrying.
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