Bright Star (2009)

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Bright_StarRelease Date: 2009
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

 London, 1818 – a secret love affair begins between 23-year-old English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. But when Keats's younger brother falls ill John and Fanny are drawn together. Keats, touched by Fanny's efforts to help care for his brother, agrees to teach her poetry.

By the time Fanny's alarmed mother (Kerry Fox) and Keats's best friend Charles Armitage Brown (Paul Schneider) realize 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 own fatal illness proved insurmountable.

 Directed by
Jane Campion

Production Co.
Pathé Renn Productions

Produced by
Morgan Freeman
Brad Silberling
Lori McCreary

Studio
Pathe

Writer
Jane Campion
Andrew Motion

Music
Scotch Reel and Bonnie Highland Laddie

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