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Bright Star
- drama, romance |
- 119 mins
- Release Date: september 19, 2009
- Starring: paul schneider, abbie cornish, thomas sangster, ben whishaw... more »
- Director: jane campion
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- Rating: pg for thematic elements, some sensuality, brief language and incidental smoking
- Official Site: http://www.brightstar-movie.com/
- Cast: paul schneider, abbie cornish, thomas sangster, ben whishaw, kerry fox, samuel barnett, samuel roukin, roger ashton-griffiths, sebastian armesto, antonia campbell-hughes
- Director: jane campion
- Writer: jane campion
- Producer: jan chapman films
- Synopsis: london 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old english poet, john keats, and the girl next door, fanny brawne, an outspoken student of fashion. this unlikely pair started at odds, he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. it was the illness of keats's younger brother that drew them together. keats was touched by fanny's efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry. by the time fanny's alarmed mother and keats's best friend brown realized their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensations, ", i have the feeling as if i were dissolving", , keats wrote to her. together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. only keats's illness proved insurmountable.
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Outside The Frame | February 14, 2012 at 6:38 PM Attend this film event: "An Evening With Michael Almereyda" [Paradise + Street screenings] @ the HFA
February 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM See this film: The Theater Bizarre @fter midnight at the Coolidge
February 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM Attend this film fest: 37th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival @ the Somerville Theatre
February 09, 2012 at 12:00 PM Attend this film program: "Cinematheque: An Evening With Joe Swanberg" @ BU
February 08, 2012 at 3:00 PM
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