The One-Line Review: Bright Star (2009)

Australia/France/UK

Feature Film

Director: Jane Campion

Writers: Jane Campion, Andrew Motion

Cinematographer: Greig Fraser

Composer: Mark Bradshaw

Cast: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox, Edie Martin, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Claudie Blakley, Gerard Monaco, Antonia Campbell-Hughes

Campion’s beautifully photographed, affectingly acted, and subtly scored tragic love story gently and ever so sensually depicts the short, tentative romance that developed between the then struggling poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, from their inauspicious first meetings to his untimely death from consumption. Iain.Stott