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Bright Star
Directed by
Jane Campion
PG
2009
1h 59m
Drama
,
Romance
,
and more
6.9
82%
69%
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Nineteenth-century English poet, John Keats and his dressmaking neighbor, Fanny Brawne, have total disregard for each other. An unlikely romance develops and they fall deeply in love near the end of his life.
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Cast of Bright Star
Abbie Cornish
Fanny Brawne
Ben Whishaw
John Keats
Paul Schneider
Mr. Brown
Kerry Fox
Mrs. Brawne
Edie Martin
Toots
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Samuel
Claudie Blakley
Maria Dilke
Gerard Monaco
Charles Dilke
Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Abigail
Samuel Roukin
Reynolds
Amanda Hale
Reynolds sister
Lucinda Raikes
Reynolds sister
Samuel Barnett
Mr. Severn
Jonathan Aris
Mr. Hunt
Olly Alexander
Tom Keats
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
shopkeeper
Eileen Davies
Mrs. Bentley
Sebastian Armesto
Mr. Haslam
Adrian Schiller
Mr. Taylor
Theresa Watson
Charlotte
Vincent Franklin
Dr. Bree
Jane Campion
Director / Writer
Jan Chapman
Producer
Caroline Hewitt
Producer
Bright Star Ratings & Reviews
Vox
Valerie Lapinski
Manages to bottle the fleeting feeling of spring bliss.
The Atlantic
Ed Koch
Wonderful attention is paid to detail, including clothing, furniture and highly-stylized behavior. What is missing is emotion.
Marie Claire
Caryn James
Director Jane Campion's most enthralling film since The Piano.
Film Comment Magazine
Nicola Evans
[Jane Campion] shows us here the beautiful sanctuaries that word and image create together, and the reasons why life requires us ... to abandon them.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
Campion, who won fans with The Piano (1993) and lost them with the dismal In the Cut (2003) here returns to the top of her form.
Cinematical
Jen Yamato
In presenting Keats as much in Brawne's eyes as she in his, we watch Fanny's growing interest in John, we wait with her for his letters, we share in her anguish when all seems lost -- Campion suggests that he was her "bright star" as well
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
For a movie so sensuously mounted, it's remarkably grounded.
Slate
Dana Stevens
The rare film about the life of an artist that is itself a work of art.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
In its way Campion's film is a thing of beauty, but its characters' inner lives must be taken on faith.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
Greig Fraser's cool cinematography offsets the heat in Campion's ecstatically literate screenplay, which quotes Keats' handiwork all the way through the end credits. It sounds like music.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The best costumers, set designers, and property masters can't conjure up the mental and emotional spaces of a simpler era; that requires a filmmaker who knows the virtue of quiet, patience, and attentiveness.
Detroit News
Tom Long
For a film about love, Bright Star is curiously cold, more pretty than emotional. True stars have heat.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Silence and stillness, as well as the restrained desire of its lovers, are given their due. After the clatter and rush of the summer flicks, patience is demanded but also rewarded.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Campion's story of a tubercular poet and his lady love recasts the hackneyed old stanza in refreshing new verse.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
A piece of perfect cinematic poetry, a film that doesn't just capture the work, love, and life of a legendary poet but does do with vibrant, relatable, timeless emotion, innocence, and purity.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Bright Star is a rich, sumptuous and, yes, challenging experience.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
What animates this dramatically constrained film are the lively words and the vitality of nature. An image of butterflies blooming in a bedroom is Keats' worldview in miniature.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Intimate as a whisper, immediate as a blush, and universal as first love, the PG-rated film positively palpitates with the sensual and spiritual.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Bright Star is ripe with the eroticism of a proud woman being seduced by words and undone by emotions. If that's not worth more than a year of Megan Fox movies, I can't help you.
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Fanny In The Room With Butterflies
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