Bright Star

Just saw this at the Ritz East. There wasn't much else playing & this had an 8.1 rating on IMDb so I thought I'd check it out. My instincts were well rewarded because this was one of the best movies I've... Full review

Never truer words were spoken- Where words fail, poetry triumphs. Bright Star, is Jane Campion's romantic ode to John Keats. She conveys desire in an ode, consummation in a sonnet. Intimate as a whisper, immediate as a blush, the film positively... Full review

Each scene, every word uttered by the characters was so beautifully and often wittily crafted that I couldn't help but wish I lived in such a lush world, full of idealism and love of literature, not to mention people who cared... Full review

For me, the beauty and loveliness of the film lingers with you long after the credits have ended. Ben Whishaw's performance is understated while also showing the witty, naive, serious and kindhearted qualities of Keats' character. The wittiness of Whishaw's Keats... Full review

The Poet of Film, Fails Jane Campion has endeared herself to art film lovers with breakthrough films, gorgeous cinematography and inspired imagery. Who can ever forget a tangled Holly Hunter drowning with a piano? As a poet and writer, I was... Full review

In Jane Campion's latest film Bright Star, we bare witness to just that. We see the power of one's words and the effect they can have on the people who encounter them, in both a positive and negative light. More specifically,... Full review

Keats's romance with Fanny Brawne and final days are brought to lovely life in Jane Campion's new film, Bright Star. He had TB, though it's never named. When he had become very ill, they sent him to Rome. How foolish! Its... Full review

The material was handled differently than I would have by the director. Not much happens in this movie, yet it's the small mundane day to day events that touch the viewer and are the strongest aspect of the film. For example... Full review

Sitting in a packed cinema in Mill Valley, CA watching this film demonstrates that the film experience still exists and that great films can be made. This is a great movie experience because it is so gentle, simple and direct-no stunts-no... Full review

I was really looking forward too seeing this film but you know what...there just wasn't no Punch too the story. Unless i missed something... there was very little chemistry between the two lovers. I must say the Cinemotgraphy was very nice.... Full review

Sit and savour this marvellous film until the lights come up.....Campion is a feminist film-maker, the heroines of her films usually oppressed by insensitive families or husbands....Both Cornish and Whishaw inhabit their roles immaculately....Campion resists the temptation to follow Keats to Italy..... ... Full Review

But the film never actually revels in the tragedy of Keats's early death.....This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection..... ... Full Review

an effect heightened by Campion's exquisite visuals.....might be cheesy but Bright Star is at once sublimely swoonsome yet marvellously down to Earth.....dying of tuberculosis is what makes their simple, star-crossed tale so achingly romantic -.... ... Full Review

A film of pictorial beauty and authenticity, graced with a fine cast.....Rejecting any temptation to spice up her story Desperate Romantics-style, Campion sticks closely to the facts....and some superbly sensitive acting -....Quietly shedding all the fussy baggage of 'heritage drama', Campion gives us a moving account of Keats' great love and tragic death.....Ben Whishaw, whose vulnerable good looks stood him in fine stead in the film version of Brideshead Revisited and TV series Criminal Justice, makes a c ... Full Review

Bright Star is Quietly Spectacular....His immortal words are so sparingly and flawlessly woven into the film at moments you might easily forget.... ... Full Review

Bright Star begins in 1818, three years before Keats was to die in Italy, aged 25, impecunious and critically unregarded. The film doesn't wail over this neglect - posterity has been the best corrective - but tries to situate him... ... Full Article

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The Mumbai Film Festival (MFF), organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI), is back with more foreign films than previous years. You may not want to miss Bright Star, directed by Jane Campion and based on the life... ... Full Article

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Bright Star " just opened with luminous reviews, scoring 81 at Metacritic . The L.A. Times calls this dramatization of poet John Keats' ( Ben Whishaw ) tragic love affair with the girl next door ( Abbie Cornish ) "one... ... Full Article