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John Keats, the romantic poet, wrote the love poem Bright Star for his 18 year-old next door neighbour Fanny Brawne. This is the story of their first love.
Berardinelli, Internet CriticFull Review Good Bright Star is a nice ode to the poet, the love of his life, and the period in which he lived.
USA TodayFull Review Good The cinematography, production design and costumes are flawlessly rendered, as are the selections of Keats' poetry.
Dallas NewsFull Review Average If you don't mind the inert drama at the core, Bright Star at least gives you plenty of eye candy.
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London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion.
This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general.
It was the illness of Keats’s younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touched by Fanny’s efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry.
By the time Fanny’s alarmed mother and Keats’s best friend Brown realised their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensations, “I have the feeling as if I were dissolving”, Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only Keats’s illness proved insurmountable.
