Bright Star

Poet John Keats fell in love with the girl next door, but it all ended too soon, and badly.

"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, all in the service of an unapologetically romantic belief in "the holiness of the heart's affections." The affections in question are those of the poet who wrote those words, John Keats, perhaps the greatest of England's 19th century Romantics, and Fanny Brawne, literally the girl next door. They met in 1818, when Keats was 23 and Brawne 18, a little more than two years before his dreadful death from tuberculosis. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (6083 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 18 settembre 2009