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Good performances from Cornish, Whishaw and Schneider for a folks and costums movie.
You will enjoy it if you like the genre. If not ... well, probably it would be a slow and dull romantic drama for you.
Bright Star
- Drama
- Romance
9/18/2009
119
PG
First love burns brightest.
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.
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- Revenue:
- $14,374,652
- Budget:
- $10,000,000
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Cast
- Abbie CornishFanny Brawne
- Ben WhishawJohn Keats
- Paul SchneiderMr. Brown
- Kerry FoxMrs. Brawne
- Edie MartinToots
- Thomas Brodie-SangsterSamuel
- Claudie BlakleyMaria Dilke
- Gerard MonacoCharles Dilke
- Antonia Campbell-HughesAbigail
- Samuel RoukinReynolds
- Amanda HaleReynolds sister
- Lucinda RaikesReynolds sister
- Samuel BarnettMr. Severn
- Jonathan ArisMr. Hunt
- Olly AlexanderTom Keats
- Roger Ashton-Griffithsshopkeeper
Reviews
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Bright Star is the rare biopic of an artist that actually provides some insight into its subjects craft. Usually, a film about a writer, including such recent examples as To Olivia (Roald Dahl) and The Laureate (Robert Graves), will approach the creative process as 99-percent inspiration and 1-percent actual work and sometimes not even that. Writing is taken as matter of course; poems come out straight out of the authors mouth, fully formed like Athena emerging from Zeuss forehead.
Bright Star doesnt dismiss the notion of divine inspiration, but it does not tacitly take it for granted either; on the contrary, it acknowledges and articulates it (If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it had better not come at all)...