Bright Star

When John Keats - a young, struggling poet - moves to Hampstead with his friend Charles Brown he falls under the spell of his landlady's beautiful, spirited daughter Fanny Brawne. As the sensitive though sickly Keats falls in love with the forthright and flirtatious girl the two become aware that they could never hope to marry on his meagre income and so, when he becomes gravely ill and is sent to spend the winter in the restorative climate of Rome she has no choice but to stay behind in England.

'It's a ravishing film, and more substantial and serious than its unashamedly lyrical beauty might lead you to think. It would belittle the film to call it exquisite; better to use the proper Romantic term and say that, in Bright Star, Campion really achieves the sublime.'

'a fine and even ennobling film'

The fest carries on with a little help from Steven Soderbergh and Jane Campion...

Jane Campion's story of doomed-love between Keats and Fanny Brawne gets a trailer

With a career ranging from a Hamlet adaptation to a Bob Dylan biopic through to a Brideshead Revisited remake, Ben Whishaw should be more than capable of portraying the great British poet, John Keats.

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