By Magdaleen Duvenage.
Viewing at: Ster Kinekor
Release Date: 5 February 2010
Written and Directed by Jane Campion.
Produced by Caroline Hewitt, Jan Chapman.
Genre: Biography Drama, Romance.
Classification: PG
Running Time: 1 hour 59 minutes.
Release Date: 5 February 2010
Written and Directed by Jane Campion.
Produced by Caroline Hewitt, Jan Chapman.
Genre: Biography Drama, Romance.
Classification: PG
Running Time: 1 hour 59 minutes.
When one thinks of modern day fairy tale, things like “love”, “happily ever after” , “music” and “poetry” are all words that come to mind. Although Bright Star has most of these components, it is still a real story, written perhaps in a time when things did not always turn out to be happily ever after.
John Keats was a famous poet. The movie tells the story of Keats, Fanny Brawne and their romantic relationship. It is a collage filled with passion, poetry, love and beautiful pictures. Keats is a young and handsome poet. Fanny is a young feminist who one would easily describe as one of Jane Austen's characters. She is a feisty seamstress, extremely opinionated and simply colourful.
Fanny seems to be noticeable in a crowd. She is very fashionable and always brings colour to a conversation. Herself and Keats falls in love passionately, they shared a never ending love relationship, if there was a possibility for a everlasting ever-true love – the love of Keats and Fanny would be top of the list. In such a short time, they loved more dearly than any character written about in fairy tales. Their love was never consummated because of Keats's untimely death in 1821.
When one look at a dictionary, under the word “true love”, there should be a picture of Keats and Fanny. Something that was striking is how he loved her. In modern romantic movies, the expression of love is usually done through sex. It seems as if society has proclaimed that when one love someone it is showed through the expression of some physical act like sex. In Keats's expression of love he abstained from sex. When Keats became ill, just before he went away, Fanny offered her self to him, claiming that: “no one would know”. He loved her so much he didn't want to do anything to shame her by saying: “I would know.” He loved her with a love that is remembered today still – words and acts of love. Modern day writers can take a few lessons from Keats: “How to woo a woman without the involvement of sex or physical acts.”
The movie is mostly about the emotional journey of Fanny, not so much the struggles of Keats and his art. This, off course, I would not classify as a “chick flick”, yet it is definitely written for the many colours of a women's heart.
I love what Campion did, she visually describes the poetry – with every phrase you see colours, this is why I love film people! Even if you don't like poetry or love stories, it is very good to just see this movie for the visuals – or as I would like to call it: Poetry for the eyes. When seeing this film you will be satisfied mentally, visually, morally, emotionally and linguistically.
The circumstances is quite troubling because Keats is penniless. Basically everyone, in the end, accepts their love. Brown is the only character who is pessimistic about Keats's and Fanny's relationship, he is an extremely cynical character and does not get along with Fanny. He has a deep love for Keats and that is the factor that brings the humanity aspect out of Brown.
Cornish gives a remarkable performance! Astonishing! She grows with the character, every women can feel what she feels and taste the changes as she grows from girl to woman. You can go through the motion of growth realizing that was you at age 16, at age 18 and finally now. She is far away from the norm size two... Curvaceous but beautiful, fashionable, artistic, feminine, elegant, graceful and different. She handles herself with ease. She floats like ghost on a cloud, head held high - pure, over dramatising movements.
As for Mr. Keats – I do believe this is the beginning of a fascination...
Bright Star was a remarkable movie. It spoke to the most private parts of my heart. The story was told completely... Every ray of sunlight, every movement and word were created to tell a story. To make it a perfect story, Keats's poetry ends this beautiful tale. There was no scenes of nudity or sex, no violence or strong language, no miss use of alcohol or drugs. Every mother can send their child to see this movie with ease.
I am giving it a poetical 7/10!
See you at the movies!
I would love to know what your opinion is on Bright Star, looking forward to hearing from you...
John Keats was a famous poet. The movie tells the story of Keats, Fanny Brawne and their romantic relationship. It is a collage filled with passion, poetry, love and beautiful pictures. Keats is a young and handsome poet. Fanny is a young feminist who one would easily describe as one of Jane Austen's characters. She is a feisty seamstress, extremely opinionated and simply colourful.
Fanny seems to be noticeable in a crowd. She is very fashionable and always brings colour to a conversation. Herself and Keats falls in love passionately, they shared a never ending love relationship, if there was a possibility for a everlasting ever-true love – the love of Keats and Fanny would be top of the list. In such a short time, they loved more dearly than any character written about in fairy tales. Their love was never consummated because of Keats's untimely death in 1821.
When one look at a dictionary, under the word “true love”, there should be a picture of Keats and Fanny. Something that was striking is how he loved her. In modern romantic movies, the expression of love is usually done through sex. It seems as if society has proclaimed that when one love someone it is showed through the expression of some physical act like sex. In Keats's expression of love he abstained from sex. When Keats became ill, just before he went away, Fanny offered her self to him, claiming that: “no one would know”. He loved her so much he didn't want to do anything to shame her by saying: “I would know.” He loved her with a love that is remembered today still – words and acts of love. Modern day writers can take a few lessons from Keats: “How to woo a woman without the involvement of sex or physical acts.”
The movie is mostly about the emotional journey of Fanny, not so much the struggles of Keats and his art. This, off course, I would not classify as a “chick flick”, yet it is definitely written for the many colours of a women's heart.
I love what Campion did, she visually describes the poetry – with every phrase you see colours, this is why I love film people! Even if you don't like poetry or love stories, it is very good to just see this movie for the visuals – or as I would like to call it: Poetry for the eyes. When seeing this film you will be satisfied mentally, visually, morally, emotionally and linguistically.
The circumstances is quite troubling because Keats is penniless. Basically everyone, in the end, accepts their love. Brown is the only character who is pessimistic about Keats's and Fanny's relationship, he is an extremely cynical character and does not get along with Fanny. He has a deep love for Keats and that is the factor that brings the humanity aspect out of Brown.
Cornish gives a remarkable performance! Astonishing! She grows with the character, every women can feel what she feels and taste the changes as she grows from girl to woman. You can go through the motion of growth realizing that was you at age 16, at age 18 and finally now. She is far away from the norm size two... Curvaceous but beautiful, fashionable, artistic, feminine, elegant, graceful and different. She handles herself with ease. She floats like ghost on a cloud, head held high - pure, over dramatising movements.
As for Mr. Keats – I do believe this is the beginning of a fascination...
Bright Star was a remarkable movie. It spoke to the most private parts of my heart. The story was told completely... Every ray of sunlight, every movement and word were created to tell a story. To make it a perfect story, Keats's poetry ends this beautiful tale. There was no scenes of nudity or sex, no violence or strong language, no miss use of alcohol or drugs. Every mother can send their child to see this movie with ease.
I am giving it a poetical 7/10!
See you at the movies!
I would love to know what your opinion is on Bright Star, looking forward to hearing from you...
