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Bright Star

By

Jane Campion

Duration

119 MIN

Language

English

Subtitles

French

Country

France, England, Australia

Year

2009

You must see a POETICAL DRAMA about LOVE
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Synopsis

It's 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house, the Dilkes family the other. Through association with the Dilkes, the fatherless Brawne family knows Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown and the Brawne's eldest daughter, Fanny, don't like each other. She thinks him arrogant and rude; he feels that she's a pretentious flirt, knowing only how to sew (admittedly well as she makes all her own fashionable clothes), and voicing opinions on subjects about which she knows nothing. Insecure struggling poet John Keats comes to live with his friend, Mr. Brown. Miss Brawne and Mr. Keats have a mutual attraction to each other, but their relationship is slow to develop, in part, since Mr. Brown does whatever he can to keep the two apart. Other obstacles face the couple, including their eventual overwhelming passion for each other clouding their view of what the other does, Mr. Keats' struggling career, which offers him little in the way of monetary ...

Jane campion

Direction

Jane Campion

Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. Campion is the second of five women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is the first—and thus far, only—female filmmaker in history to receive the Palme d'Or, which she received for directing the acclaimed film The Piano (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Cinematographer

Grant Adams

Screenplay

Jane Campion

Cast

Abbie Cornish
Ben Whishaw
Paul Schneider
Kerry Fox
Edie Martin
Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Original Title

Bright Star

French Title

Mon amour

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