Bright Star

Jane Campion Presents Another Resilient Heroine

Jane Campion, who won the Palme d’Or for “The Piano” (1993), is back in competition. Her new film, “Bright Star,” takes place during the last two years of John Keats’s young life, when he fell hopelessly in love with Fanny Brawne, his neighbor, an impossible liaison because he was poor and sick.
In Ms. Campion’s film, the bright star is Fanny, played by the Australian actress Abbie Cornish as a girl more passionate about sewing and fashion than poetry. This 19th-century romance resonates: at the end of the screening, there were few dry eyes. [...]

di Joan Dupont, articolo completo (5637 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 15 maggio 2009