25 March 2010 at the Studio, Key Theatre

         
   

Bright Star

 

 
 

 

Director

  Jane Campion

 

 
 

Stars

 

Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Paul Schneide

 

 

 

 

 

Rating

  PG
 

Year

  2009  
  Country   UK  
 

Length

  119 min  

Jane Campion has put herself in line for her second Palme d'Or here at the Cannes film festival with a film which could be the best of her career; an affecting and deeply considered study of the last years in the short life of John Keats, and the ecstasy of loss which suffuses his love affair with Fanny Brawne – a love thwarted not due to illness, but to a pernicious web of money worries, social scruples and irrelevant male loyalties.

 

 

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