London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion.
This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. It was the illness of Keats’s 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’s best friend Brown realised their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum.
Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensations, “I have the feeling as if I were dissolving”, Keats wrote to her.
Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only Keats’s illness proved insurmountable. --Cannes Film Festival
Cast: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Paul Schneider, Edie Martin, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Claudie Blakley, Gerard Monaco, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Samuel Roukin, Olly Alexander
Cannes (In Competition), Toronto (Special Presentations), Telluride (The 'Show'), London (Gala), São Paulo
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Title: Bright Star (2009)
Directed by: Jane Campion
Date of birth: 30 April 1954, Waikenae, New Zealand
Writing credits:
Jane Campion
Music by: Mark Bradshaw
Country: Australia | France | United Kingdom
Language: French | English
Color: Color
Runtime: 119 min.