Bright Star
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January 26, 2010
- Synopsis
- The tragic but intensely passionate love affair between Romantic poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and the radiant Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) is detailed in this romantic period drama from critically acclaimed writer/director Jane Campion....
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- Starring
- Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Kerry Fox, Paul Schneider, Edie Martin
- Director(s)
- Jane Campion
- Distributor(s)
- Apparition (USA), Pathé Pictures International
- MPAA Rating
- PG
- Runtime
- 119 min.
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Critic Reviews
The rare film about the life of an artist that is itself a work of art.Read the full review
A fine-boned, luminous tribute to Keats and the sufferings of love.Read the full review
Masterfully put-together, made with confidence, intelligence and command.Read the full review
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400 Screens, 400 Blows - The Year in Small Films
12/26/09 Sometimes that assessment just depends on what I saw last. | Cinematical.com -
Jane Campion and 'Bright Star' -- Lost in the Shuffle?
12/21/09 Jane Campion, who's wowed film fans and critics for years with movies like Sweetie, The Piano, and The Portrait of a Lady, came back with a fierceness at this year's Cannes with Bright Star, an elegant retelling of the love affair between John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). | Cinematical.com -
Globes' dramatic flavor
12/17/09 Tilting from the template a bit, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. has chosen to fill its drama category this year with one potential blockbuster (James Cameron's adventure-fantasy "Avatar"), one star-driven but small-scale vehicle (Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" with George Clooney), two war movies (Quentin Tarantino's WWII revenge-fantasy "Inglourious Basterds" and Kathryn Bigelow's taut, unpreachy Iraq War nail-biter "The Hurt Locker") and an intimate, harrowing inner-city tale of adolescent perseverance (Lee Daniels' "Precious"). | Variety -
SAG Helps Thin Oscar Herd?
12/17/09 If you were hoping for the Screen Actors Guild to help sort out the eventual Oscar nominees, well, there's good news and there is bad news. | Cinematical.com -
Bright Star costumes in focus
12/15/09 It's not often that a costume designer gets to design costumes for a character who's also a costume designer. | Variety -
Adapted scripts range wide
12/15/09 Though Cooper doesn't shy away from the downbeat qualities of Cobb's novel (concerning the twilight years of an alcoholic, washed-up country crooner named Bad Blake), his screenplay refocuses on Bad's decency, resilience and newfound May-December passion without the usual heart-tugging. | Variety -
Sundance’s “Runaways” Go to Apparition
12/14/09 Director Floria Sigismondi's Sundance 2010 feature "The Runaways" has been picked up by Apparition in a pact that was anticipated. | indieWIRE -
Costume dramas attempt to avoid cliches
12/11/09 Look past the corsets and the candles, the horses and the hallowed halls, and really, the only common element in the cinematography of this year's notable period films is the filmmakers' attempts to avoid the conventions and cliches of the genre. | Variety -
Lenser Greig Fraser shoots them all
12/11/09 Melbourne native Greig Fraser, 34, was early in his career as a commercial and editorial photographer when he decided to trade the "simple, one-man game" of photography for life as a d.p. "It's a growing, organic process," he says of filmmaking. | Variety -
Art for drama's sake
12/09/09 For a creative medium, cinema has had a deeply troubled relationship with creativity -- at least when it comes to putting it onscreen. | Variety





