Bright Star

Movie • 2009

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Jane Campion weaves the poetry of John Keats into every frame, making falling in love feel like composing a sonnet. As someone who loves both poetry and historical romance, this is cinematic bliss.

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A love story between the poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne—fittingly, the film itself is poetic, suffused with longing and tenderness, and makes poetry physical through touch, light, and sound.

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In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.