Bright Star

Young Romantics

In Jane Campion’s “Bright Star,” a half-educated but boldly self-possessed and talented beauty named Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) captures first the admiration and then the love of a tubercular young man (Ben Whishaw), who spends his days sitting with a friend in a darkened room in his house in London or wandering Hampstead Heath in a seeming trance. He’s a most unpromising fellow: sometimes spirited and funny, but often sunk in quiet and apparently unproductive melancholy. It is 1818, and the young man, John Keats, will die in a few years, at the age of twenty-five, and soon afterward become known, despite much criticism of his work, as one of the greatest English poets since Shakespeare and Milton. [...]

di David Denby, articolo completo (4002 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New Yorker 21 settembre 2009