Bright Star
A new film from Jane Campion about the poet John Keats and his relationship with Fanny Brawne.
London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23-year-old English poet, John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne. When she asks him to teach her about poetry, he agrees.
The poetry soon becomes a romantic remedy that works not only to sort their differences, but fuel an impassioned love affair. "I have the feeling as if I was dissolving", Keats writes.
When Keats falls ill a year later, the two young lovers face not marriage, but separation. In Keats' own poignant words, "forever panting and forever young".
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Pathé Productions, Film Finance Corporation Australia, BBC Films and the UK Film Council present in association with the New South Wales Film and Television Office and Hopscotch International.
- Starring
- Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish
- Written and Directed by
- Jane Campion
- Producers
- Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt, Jane Campion
- Sales Agent
- Pathé Pictures International
- UK Release Date
- 6th November 2009
- Website
- www.brightstarthemovie.com
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