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Bright Star [DVD] [2009]

Bright Star [DVD] [2009]Director: Jane Campion
Actors: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Kerry Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 27 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,941

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
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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

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3 out of 5 stars 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.


4 out of 5 stars 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.


4 out of 5 stars 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.


4 out of 5 stars beautiful but lacking something   June 4, 2010
Mr. Robert Marsland (Glasgow, Scotland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a beautifully shot film, both outdoors and in. However the romance between Fanny and Keats to my mind was too romantically played with lush shots of the countryside and tender kisses. Who would expect anything else, knowing Keats' poetry - but it just seemed too feminine in the end. It seems to suggest that the couple never made love - maybe they didn't and more's the pity. Just too soft and not enough to interest fully.


3 out of 5 stars Pretty vase   May 27, 2010
R. J. Harvey (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) may be brusque compared with the musing poets next door, but she's a sensitive, sensual girl, fragile as an autumn leaf. Her mother regards her with pity; her brother with a kind of concerned awe, the way one looks at a butterfly.

One wonders whether Jane Campion's first feature since 2003's In the Cut intends to make the point that romantic love is as light, transient, and frail as the aforementioned butterfly; or perhaps that it exists on an alternative plane, where the rigours of real life don't get a look-in. (This would explain why Fanny seems unfazed by the chill of an early nineteenth century country house in the depth of winter.)

There's an interesting love story here - but unfortunately it's the one that's marginalised, between John Keats and Mr Brown. For all his cruelty in disregarding her ability to feel - a jealousy performed with skillful agony by American actor Paul Schneider - Mr Brown kind of has a point when he asserts that Fanny only knows how to "flirt and sew". Abbie Cornish is a very talented performer, embodying all the youth and naïveté of her character. If only that character amounted to more than mood swings and glances.

Bright Star is as handsome and empty as a vase, failing to capture the essence of love or the power of poetry.

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