Bright Star (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

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"Bright Star": Ben Whishaw as the Romantic poet John Keats and Abbie Cornish as his beloved, Fanny Brawne, in Jane Campion’s latest film, which opens on Wednesday in Manhattan.
September 16, 2009
Keats and His Beloved in an Ode to Hot English Chastity
By A. O. SCOTT

John Keats was a Romantic poet. “Bright Star,” which tells the tale of Keats and Fanny Brawne, the love of his short life, is a romantic movie. The vernacular of popular culture and the somewhat specialized language of literary history assign different meanings to that word, but the achievement of Jane Campion’s learned and ravishing new film is to fuse them, to trace the comminglings and collisions of poetic creation and amatory passion. More