Bright Star (2009)

Instant Favorite.

good film but with many flaws

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Surprising such a talented director could put out such an unwatchable film. The one star I granted it is for fast-forwarding to enjoy looking at Paul Schneider, the only sign of life in the whole thing. Did anyone do screen tests before casting? Abbie Cornish's sullen, dead-eyed expression and zero star power, combined with lack of chemistry with Ben Wishaw, doomed it from the start. I was intrigued at one point by an a cappella version of Mozart's Serenade in B Flat; unfortunately that was also horribly done. How ironic that the love affair of a romantic poet would produce such a passionless yawn of a film.

It was a pleasure to see this movie. The action takes place in a long time ago, everything is somehow better than today. A special experience is that through the whole film, John Keats's lyrics are written. As someone who loves poetry, this movie is a real revelation.Poetry and a combination of love is a somewhat forgotten way to enjoy the company of the person you care about. Sometimes the boys used to make lyrics to the lyrics, today ... Some other time! The film is not a top achievement when it looks at the whole.The film is not a top achievement when it looks at the whole. However, the story is drinkable, beautiful filled with the most sensual feelings, so it is to look at this kind of real enjoyment. The costumes are phenomenal, I can say that the actors were at an enviable level. The end of the movie where the lyrics are recited for a few minutes is a hit.7,6/10

It's 1818 in Hampstead Village on outer London. Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) is introduced to John Keats (Ben Whishaw). At first, he dismisses her as a fashionista. She pursues him by reading his poems. She shows compassion to his sick brother Tom who passes away. His lack of an income keeps him from truly pursuing a romance. His friend and writing mate Charles Brown (Paul Schneider) aims to show Fanny as a cruel flirt by sending her a Valentine.In the sure hands of Jane Campion, this has both a poetic and true feel of romance. She shows restraint which only heightens the passion. The Brown valentine is a shocking turn and the height of romantic drama. In particular, Abbie Cornish delivers a compelling of a relentless love from the heart and passion from the time era.

Bright Star is a fairly standard sort of biopic, investigating the life love and work - for they are all barely distinguishable - of romantic poet John Keats. What sets Jane Campion's account of his love for Fanny Brawne is its sensuality. The photography is of the first rank, Greig Fraser's attention to the image apparent from the first frame, holding lint-dusted linen in high-contrast light and then opening up into an endless sequence of meticulously constructed compositions. Janet Patterson's costume design needs to be adventurous and brilliantly executed, given that Abbie Cornish's Fanny is a proud fashion pioneer. Indeed Cornish and Ben Whishaw's Keats are also highly photogenic actors. From interior production design to the seasonal appearance of locations, manufactured or found, everything has both a tangible and aural quality. Image blends across the soft-touch sound design and allows the profusion of poetry quotations to emerge without awkwardness. This is the secret of good film making - when the visual seems to make provision for everything that needs to be said. Wish I'd seen it on a big screen. 7/10