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Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Absolutely the worst movie.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

I just recently watched this film for the first time and was impressed but the film, it was pretty good. The acting was faultless and I must say there was a stand out performance by Abby Cornish. The cinematography was equally of a high standard, there are several scenes where the lighting and atmosphere really help you feel part of the story. I also should give kudos to the costume department, their choices were perfect. Looking at the film itself I should say its a very well told romantic tale the story between Fanny and Keats could so easily have become a more sentimental one. But through a natural dialogue between characters a little bit of humour and good control over the story line Campion has managed to make a really good film. You can feel the emotions coming across and take the emotional journey with the characters throughout. Its just a really nice film.

The director a woman and often in her films: in focus a woman. Here John Keats 'Bright Star', Fanny, 1800-1865, the mother to two children with her husband Louis Lindon she married twelve years after her mourning, 1833. Seven years after her death, 1878, her love affair with Keats, 1818-1821, was the publication of the letters revealed: Fanny, the reason of the poets quick sonnets as well La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on Melancholy. The salt in their affair was Keats friend, the jealous Brown. Afraid that she disturbed the friendship. The poets poem 'Bright Star' ends the films credits and is the films title. The flavor of their three-years-romance, starting November 1818 was the frail poets tuberculosis. The film by a woman for a woman 'breathes' woman in every aspect. But without a man, here it is John Keats: no love, no poetry, no film. The movie by a woman, focusing a married woman and her love to a poets short life: a bright flame that tuberculosis too soon set an end. A woman's color, a woman's decision how this period film should be like. A film that makes breathing difficult (Fanny: "Mamma, I can't breath." And: the heartbreaking scene. The sorrowed distress when Brown comes with the message all knew had to come. Despite Italy and other medical preventions of these days who perhaps brought the death earlier. Only a female director and a female actress is able for this shattering moment. Followed by Fanny walking in the snow while we listen to the poem Bright Star during the credits.The letters she kept where shown to her children once. With the promise to do nothing until after her death, 1865, for the sake of her husband and her children's father Louis Lindon she married 1833 and died 1872. Frances Lindon and Fanny Brawne: two people in one body: the wife and the lover. The mysterious, unnamed beloved of the now famous Keats was she. Seven years after her death Fanny's identity became known.(http://englishhistory.net/keats/fannybrawne.html)

For anyone who has studied English literature, the name John Keats is well known. He is one of the finest and most celebrated of the romantic poets from the beginning of the 19th century, and besides the fact that he wrote he wrote brilliant poetry, his personal biography personifies most of the important features of the romantic age: The poor poet who devotes his life to art, but is not appreciated by the critics or the public until after his death. A passionate love affair that cannot lead to marriage, because he is unable to support a family. Finally his death at a young age (25) of tuberculosis - the "romantic disease".The film takes place over a period of three years. The main theme of the film is the passionate love story between John Keats and Fanny Brawne. When they first meet Keats is 22 and Fanny is 17. Keats has moved into in a cottage near the Brawn family with his mentor and friend Mr. Brown. Their love develops slowly, because Keats is painfully aware that he is not a suitable match for a young girl of a respectable middle class family, and so is Fanny's mother. Fanny is a cheerful girl who likes to dance and sew fine dresses, and Keat's poetry does not immediately appeal to her. Keats moves back and forth from the cottage and Fanny, but being apart only makes their feelings stronger. They write passionate love letters to each other, and when they meet again, they cannot hide their feelings, and decide to get engaged. Shortly afterwards Keats falls ill with tuberculosis, and is advised to move to the warmer climate of Italy. Keats dies a few months later in Rome.Jane Campion is an excellent film director and besides "The Piano" from 1993, "Bright Star" is her best film so far. Her biggest achievement is the visual beauty, and the dreamlike quality of the film which matches Keats' poetry perfectly, but it is also a very modern film with people of flesh and blood, who share passionate kisses and warm embraces.

Just saw this movie and can't stop myself to add this review. One of the best movie I have seen till date. Fanny (Abbie) has done a wonderful role of "Fanny". I liked Ben's role in "Perfume" but here he has really given his best as "Keats".Congratulations Jane Campion and all others involved here for showing us... emotions of love in a very beautiful way. The direction was superb as in one scene where the wind is blowing the curtain in her bedroom, the colors, costumes were awesome and good to watch.I wish to remember these lines ever...: (1) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Its loveliness increases. It will never pass into nothingness."(2)"I almost wish we were butterflies, and lived but three summer days. Three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."