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Bright Star (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
BAFTA Awards
British Independent Film Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
120 min + 52 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
France ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jane Campion

Written By:
Jane Campion

Actors:
Abbie Cornish ..... Fanny Brawne
Ben Whishaw ..... John Keats
Paul Schneider ..... Mr. Brown
Kerry Fox ..... Mrs. Brawne
Edie Martin ..... Toots
Thomas Brodie-Sangster ..... Samuel
Claudie Blakley ..... Maria Dilke
Gerard Monaco ..... Charles Dilke
Antonia Campbell-Hughes ..... Abigail
Samuel Roukin ..... Reynolds
Amanda Hale ..... Reynolds Sister
Lucinda Raikes ..... Reynolds Sister
Samuel Barnett ..... Mr. Severn
Jonathan Aris ..... Mr. Hunt
Olly Alexander ..... Tom Keats

Synopsis:

London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year-old English poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw), and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an out-spoken student of high fashion. This unlikely pair begin at odds, he thinking her a stylish minx, while she was unimpressed not only by his poetry but also by literature in general.However, when Fanny heard that Keats was nursing his seriously ill younger brother, her efforts to help touched Keats and when she asked him to teach her about poetry he agreed. The poetry soon became a romantic remedy that worked not only to sort their differences, but also to fuel an impassioned love affair.When Fanny's alarmed mother and Keats' best friend finally awoke to their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept deeply into powerful new sensations, 'I have the feeling as if we're dissolving,' Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that only deepened as their troubles mounted.When Keats fell ill a year later, the two young lovers faced no marriage but separation. In Keats' own poignant words, 'forever panting and forever young.'

John Keats was a Romantic poet. "Bright Star," which tells the tale of Keats and Fanny Brawne, the love of his short life, is a romantic movie. The vernacular of popular culture and the somewhat specialized language of literary history assign different meanings to that word, but the achievement of Jane Campion's learned and ravishing new film is to fuse them, to trace the comminglings and collisions of poetic creation and amatory passion. This is a risky project, not least because a bog of cliché and fallacy lies between the filmmaker and her goal. In the first decades of the 19th century, some poets may have been like movie stars, but the lives of the poets have been, in general, badly served on film, either neglected altogether or puffed up with sentiment and solemnity. Keats's genius underestimated by many of the critics of his time, championed by a loyal coterie of literary friends ? is the fixed point around which "Bright Star" orbits. Its animating force, however, is the infatuation that envelops Keats and Brawne in their early meetings and grows, over the subsequent months, into a sustaining and tormenting love. Mr. Keats, as his lover decorously calls him, is diffident and uneasy at times, but also witty, sly and steadfast. The movie really belongs to Brawne, played with mesmerizing vitality and heart-stopping grace by Abbie Cornish. Ms. Cornish, an Australian actress whose previous films include "Stop-Loss," "Candy" and "Somersault," has, at 27, achieved a mixture of unguardedness and self-control matched by few actresses of any age or nationality. She's as good as Kate Winslet, which is about as good as it's possible to be. Ms. Campion is one of modern cinema's great explorers of female sexuality, illuminating Sigmund Freud's "dark continent" with skepticism, sympathy and occasional indignation. "Bright Star" could easily have become a dark, simple fable of repression, since modern audiences like nothing better than to be assured that our social order is freer and more enlightened than any that came before. But Fanny and Keats are modern too, and though the mores of their time constrain them, they nonetheless regard themselves as free.Ms. Campion, with her restless camera movements and off-center close-ups, films history in the present tense, and her wild vitality makes this movie romantic in every possible sense of the word.

It's 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house, the Dilkes family who live in the other half. Through their association with the Dilkes, the fatherless Brawne family know Mr. Brown. The Brawne's eldest daughter, Fanny Brawne, and Mr. Brown don't like each other. She thinks he's arrogant and rude, and he feels that she is pretentious, knowing only how to sew (admittedly well as she makes all her own fashionable clothes), flirt and give opinions on subjects about which she knows nothing. Insecure struggling poet 'John Keats' comes to live with his friend, Mr. Brown. Miss Brawne and Mr. Keats have a mutual attraction to each other, a relationship which however is slow to develop in part since Mr. Brown does whatever he can to keep the two apart. But other obstacles face the couple, including their eventual overwhelming passion for each other clouding their view of what the other does, Mr. Keats' struggling career which offers him little in the way of monetary security (which will lead to Mrs. Brawne not giving consent for them to marry), and health issues which had earlier taken the life of Mr. Keats' brother, Tom.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 22 December, 2011.

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