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Bright Star |  | Actors: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 1745
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD33414D
UPC: 043396334144
EAN: 0043396334144
ASIN: B002WY65VA
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: January 26, 2010
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Product Description
A touching & timeless tale of the passionate romance between english poet john keats & his beloved muse. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/26/2010 Starring: Abbie Cornish Ben Whishaw Run time: 119 minutes Rating: Pg
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Add Jane Campion's rich, sensuous, quietly thrilling Bright Star to the very short list of admirable films about writers. In this case the writer is John Keats (Ben Whishaw), the Romantic poet who died at age 25 believing himself a failure. The movie, set during his last several years, focuses on his playful friendship with and evolving love for Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), the independent-minded young woman who lived next door in Hampstead Village and was, in her own fashion, an artistic spirit. Completing an ineffably fraught constellation--not exactly a romantic triangle--is Keats's host Charles Armitage Brown (Paul Schneider), who loves, esteems, and regards Keats with both pride and envy, and engages in an unstated rivalry for Fanny. All three performances are superb, with Whishaw adding to his gallery of artist figures (the olfactorily obsessed murderer in Perfume, one of the Bob Dylans in I'm Not There), and Cornish and Schneider taking top acting honors for 2009. As in Campion's The Piano, others are party to the central story, and they have identities, personalities, and claims to intelligence and understanding that we appreciate without having it announced in dialogue. Kerry Fox (redheaded wild girl of Campion's An Angel at My Table nearly two decades ago) evokes Fanny's mother with a few brushstrokes, and Fanny's young sister and brother are watchful presences and de facto co-conspirators in the courtship. In addition, Bright Star is the rare period movie to convey--without being insistent--what it was like to be alive in another era, the nature of houses and rooms and how people occupied them, the way windows linked spaces and enlarged people's lives and experiences, how fires warmed as the milky English sunlight did not. And always there is an aliveness to place and weather, the creak of boardwalk underfoot and the wind rustling the reeds as lovers walk through a wetland. Poetry grows from such things; at least, Jane Campion's does. --Richard T. Jameson
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 Re-reading Keats for the first time. July 30, 2010
Mark Watney (Kansas)
I find it hard to be objective here: I simply fell in love with this film. I fell under its enchantment from the opening bars of Mozart's Serenade No. 10---in acapelo! (Creating haunting memories of Amadeus), to Fanny's tragic recitation in the closing scene, in the snow, of "Ode to a Nightingale." It was as close to "catharsis" as I have felt in any movie or book this year. I have not felt this same yearning for the happiness of two frail beings, since, perhaps, my reading of Tess of the D'urbavilles. I have seldom had to pause and rewind so often, to notice the way the wind blew, or the flowers shivered, or the children played, or poetry sounded, or linen danced, or candle-wax spilled, or hands touched, or an emotion flickered across Fanny's face, or an octagon-shaped table with inkwells and quills looked like. I cannot wait to re-read Keats, for the first time. Great poetry must always be read again for the first time. (We keep getting ourselves in the way).
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Touching July 8, 2010
Readsalot
A touching romance about poet John Keats and his muse Fanny Brawne. Although some parts are a bit slow, there are also scenes of intense feeling and violent emotion. Has certainly made me want to learn more about this star-crossed couple.
 Why doesn't Keats die sooner? July 6, 2010
Rev. E. Antonio Hernandez
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
BRIGHT STAR is so bloody dismal and silly I could barely finish watching it. Even if you like Keats, this film will leave you feeling empty and confused. It purports to tell the story of Keats (Ben Whishaw, managing as usual to be creepy and boring simultaneously) and his brief affair with fashion designer Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish giving a rather immature, operatic performance but I guess someone had to do it). The story is set in 1818.
Their whole plan was cut short by Keats' untimely death. I only wish I could state the same about this cinematically challenged offering. If you think this will be good just because it is about Keats or because Jane Austen was living at the same time, FORGET IT. This film, as I was so angry to learn, is no match for the caliber of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY or PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. It does not even manage to compete with ONEGIN.
While the direction sags, the cinematography is virtually unbearable; how many close-ups can an audience endure? The readings by the actors from Keats' work are bearable (but not if one hates Keats). Still, one does want to see some sign of life in a film. This poor and dreadful hash has no pulse.
I'm not at all sorry for writing this: Whishaw (known only because of his semi-comatose performance in PERFUME) is one of the worst, most pathetic actors I've ever been forced to suffer. From his twitchy, crooked face to his anorexic little build to his lousy, wooden acting--if you can call that "acting"--I DESPISE him. I'd have preferred Cillian Murphy, who is at least a competent and sometimes riveting player.
Don't waste your money. You'd do far better and feel really good if you spent a weekend curled up happily watching CRANFORD, PERSUASION or good old Colin making Mr. Darcy eat crow.
A very stella Bright Star July 1, 2010
Janette Heffernan (New Zealand)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An Ode to John Keats by Jane Campion. If you love the poetry of Keats then you'll love this film. Beautifully made and ought to have won an Oscar. What more is there to say except go out and buy one! There should be more films like this for intelligent film buyers but sadly it seems the only thing that matters to most film makers is the 29 year old male.
I enjoyed it so much it made me rush for my camcorder and recite 'Ode to Autumn' for YouTube! It certainly is the most beautiful ode ever.
Lastly keep a hankie handy as it is very sad at the end.
BEAUTIFUL STORY June 29, 2010
Alphonse Mucha
What a WONDERFULLY beautiful story. Well acted, wonderful photography, locations, wardrobe, EVERYTHING. Wonderful music.. A MUST see if you like history/period pieces or know the work of poet John Keats. And the great thing is that unlike some history/period pieces this movie has great humor and a fantastic story. Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish do a wonderfully fantastic job. This movie opened my eyes to the world of poetry OTHER than Shakespeare!! A must see. A must OWN!!
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