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Bright Star [DVD] [2009]
enlarge	Director: Jane Campion Actors: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Kerry Fox Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £5.47 as of 7/9/2010 13:54 BST details You Save: £14.52 (73%) In Stock New (17) Used (7) from £5.47 Seller: gzoop Rating: 29 reviews Sales Rank: 611 Format: Anamorphic, Colour, PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Original Language), English (Audio Description) Rating: Parental Guidance Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 115 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060002836637 ASIN: B002VBXPL2 Theatrical Release Date: 2009 Release Date: March 8, 2010 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review 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 honours 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, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next » Truly awful August 14, 2010 Timothy Grayson 0 out of 1 found this review helpful I love and respect the lives of the Romantics, but this shoddily produced biopic is not the place to start if you've ever expressed an interest in Keats. It does have some factual integrity but falls short of maintaining the average viewer's interest, so if you know nothing of this revolutionary movement it will probably put you off! The beautiful settings and mise en scene fail to hide the atrocious acting (especially from the little girl - heartless, yes, but I have no idea how she got the role) and lack of chemistry between the main characters, dragging it right down to feel like a cheaply produced television drama. Not recommended for fans OR those new to the subject. [] do i wake or do I sleep? August 14, 2010 I couldn't help but be a little disappointed by this. There's no denying that it's a visual feast - Greig Fraser's cinematography and Janet Patterson's production design create an utterly believeable world - at once suffused with the drowsy vision of keats, the squalor of Regency London and the domestic spaces of women and children. However, it fails to conjure much sympathy for its central characters; it's had to work out what precisely Fanny Brawne is supposed to find so interesting about Keats and whilst she begins the film as an independent, renaissance-woman in the making, half-way through the film she's rolling about the floor in a room full of butterflies. The dramatic tension between Keats' doomed dedication to poetry, his love for Fanny and the practical need to make money - and hence be able to marry - is hinted at but not explored with any depth, Similarly, the world of the film is essentially middle-class - Keats was the son of a bar man and probably spoke with a broad cockney accent - here he comes across like a grammar-school drop out. Campion lets everything unfold quietly, creating a film of great poise and meditative calm - it's a shame that it's a little lacking in substance. I wanted to like it more July 7, 2010 F. Connolly (Scotland) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful I really wanted to love this but it was a bit slow so only liked it. Lovely love story and beautifully made. Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw did amazing jobs. I really felt for them and loved the story. But it was just a little slow. Plus Whishaw still freaks me out from when he was the killer in Perfume. Overall worth at least one watch but probably not one i'll be racing to see again. Bright Star June 23, 2010 S. Snailum (UK) This was a gift for a friend - the first copy sent was unplayable but you exchanged it for a playable version, for which thanks. I played it myself before forwarding it to my friend to make sure it was all right - it was and I quite enjoyed it and she has reported back to me that she enjoyed it too. Interestingly, as she has just been involved in researching the history of Keats' house in Hampstead, she was surprised that none of it was filmed at the house. A lovely piece of direction June 5, 2010 Ms. EA Byrne (London, Uk) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful Beautifully filmed piece of cinema and some great performances. I know some critics weren't convinced by the portrayal of Keats- I read one which said he seemed a bit "wet"- but Ben Wishaw is wonderful and in spite of criticism I think it captures the Romantic spirit well. Give it a try and avoid being cynical and I think you can really enjoy. Showing reviews 1-5 of 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next »

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