Bright Star, alternative long title Bright Star - My Love. Eternal is a melodrama of Jane Campion from the year 2009. It originated in British, French and Australian co-production.

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The 1818 Fanny Brawne is a young seamstress who lives with her mother and younger siblings Toots and Samuel. She is proud of her skills in sewing and embroidering and therefore despised the literary Mr. Brown, who does not appreciate their work. Brown is the mentor and supporter of the gifted poet John Keats, to whom he offers accommodation in a London semi-detached and there gives the necessary rest for writing. A first meeting of Keats and Fanny interrupts Brown after a short time. Fanny can not do much with poetry and is therefore not a good interlocutor for Keats. However, you buy his last poem Endymion, which had proved to be a shop keeper. Although it is a large part of the poem is not appealing, the beginning, however masterful. She asks Keats, who spends Christmas at the Brawnes, to teach them poetry. For Keats the company of Fanny is also distraction from the death of his brother Tom, who died of tuberculosis.

Brown laughed at the poetry hours and Keats soon realizes that poetry is not something you can explain. Fanny, in turn, begins to read many works. Even if she does not know Geoffrey Chaucer, although she claims against Brown to have read all of his work, they can but soon many poems of Keats by heart. Brown warns, however, against Fanny Keats, but they 'll bring his art to a halt. Even Fanny's mother is against a connection, Keats 's completely destitute.

The summer spend the next Brawnes Brown and Keats in the same house, but they have hired the other semi-detached house for several months. Soon, however, Keats and Brown are traveling for an indefinite period, as Keats must write in order to make money. He is ready for departure, to bend to the will of Mrs. Brawne and Fanny to refrain from social reasons. Both, however, remain in close correspondence. As Keats returns, Fanny and he also against the mother's will become a couple. One day Keats travels without a coat to London, gets into a storm and must complete the return journey on the outer bank of a coach. He reached Brown's house through frozen and is almost unable to walk. In the next time he is confined to bed and spits blood. His condition hardly improves in the coming weeks.

The maid of Brawnes, Abigail is pregnant by Brown. He assumes responsibility for the child, but can no longer help finance Keats now. The move to a small apartment on the outskirts of London. The drafty, wet environment deteriorated Keats's health and yet so many friends decide to send him to Italy. Fanny burst into tears when she hears it, and Keats knows that he will never come back to her. Both spend the eve of departure together and Mrs. Brawne agrees at the end of a wedding, when Keats returns from Italy, his latest book, but was a small success. On the day of departure Keats and Fanny are not talking to each other. Keats travels with his friend Joseph Severn to Italy. Brown delivers the Brawnes few months later, the news of the death of Keats, who died as his brother from tuberculosis. Fanny collapses. Later, she sews a black mourning dress and cuts off her hair. Alone she wanders the heath, where she was formerly with Keats together, and recited poems while her fiance.

Production

Bright Star depicts the life of John Keats and his love for Fanny Brawne. Served as the basis of the biography of Keats by Andrew Motion, who also served as a consultant during the filming. The film was until May 2008 in and around Hyde House in Hyde, Bedfordshire, shot in nine weeks of April. Also on the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, the funeral scene was filmed for a day.

Bright Star made its debut on 15 May 2009 at the International Film Festival in Cannes, and came on December 24, 2009 in the German cinemas. In June 2010, the film was released on DVD.

Criticism

" Occasionally, poems that are structured by action is exaggerated by an over- stressed artful image imagery, however, is the film thanks to its convincing lead actress again and again to intense moments back," was the filmdienst. Cinema called the film " a subtle and poetic ", describing it as a " bittersweet ode to the beauty and the pain of unrequited love ." Der Spiegel called Bright Star a "dark ode to longing "; The film " infatuated [ ... ] by elegantly photographed images of lights beauty". Critic.de said that "Landscapes and seasons the moods and trends of the protagonists " reflect. Except for a few " something to plump guessed scenes ", Keats poetry flowed " casually and unobtrusively into the action a ".

Awards

At the International Film Festival of Cannes 2009, the film was in competition for the Golden Palm. He was nominated in the same year for four Satellite Awards and received two CFCA Award nominations. Greig Fraser won a British Independent Film Award for Best Technology; the film was nominated for three more British Independent Film Awards.

Janet Patterson in 2010 was nominated for Best Costume Design for an Oscar in the category, but could not prevail against Sandy Powell ( The Young Victoria) is. The film won three AFI Awards 2010 and was nominated for eight more. Janet Patterson received a BAFTA nomination for Best Costumes.

In 2011, the film received a César Award nomination for Best Foreign Film.

France 2009 in film Screenplay Film score Paul Schneider (actor) Antonia Campbell-Hughes Endymion (poem) Palme d'Or 82nd Academy Awards Australian Film Institute Integrated Authority File

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Bright Star (film)

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