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Bright Star

2009

Jane Campion

Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, Thomas Brodie-Sangster ...

6.1

3,278

Romance. Drama The drama based on the three-year romance between 19th century english poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25.

	Author	Review
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Bright Star satisfies a hunger we may not have known we had, a hunger for an exquisitely done, emotional love story that marries heartbreaking passion to formidable filmmaking restraint, (...) Exceptional film"	POS
United States	Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer	"Intimate as a whisper, immediate as a blush, and universal as first love, the (...) film positively palpitates with the sensual and spiritual (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS

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