Bright Star [DVD]

The tragic but intensely passionate love affair between Romantic poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw - PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER, I'M NOT THERE) and the radiant Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish - CANDY, A GOOD YEAR) is detailed in this moving period drama from critically acclaimed writer/director Jane Campion (THE PIANO, IN THE CUT). BRIGHT STAR, which screenplay was penned by Campion herself, is mostly based on John Keats’s biography by poet laureate Sir Andrew Morton. The film centres on the three year relationship between Keats, then a struggling poet, and the girl next door, Frances Brawn. The two fell profoundly in love and many of Keats’s compositions of the time - most notably the poem BRIGHT STAR - were inspired by the tender passion they shared. The lovers’ fate, though, was soon tested by Keats’s poverty and worsening health, circumstances that inevitably tried their bond.