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2010/11 Season

BRIGHT STAR

UK/Australia 2009 (PG) 118 minutes Directed by Jane Campion

Ipswich Film Theatre - 11 October 2010 - 7.30pm This is a restrained, yet sensuous telling of a relationship that wasn't to be fulfilled, in the love story of Fanny Brawne and an increasingly tubercular John Keats. It's a lush portrait of a doomed 19th Century romance set against parental displeasure. AUDIENCE COMMENTS: Transporting back 200 years to be an observer of values and morals; Wonderful acting and photography but the story sagged a bit at times. Very good ending though; Full of atmosphere with a true sense of loss and grief; Very good photography and acting but the story fails to grab interest. It remains yet another cosume drama; Too long, too slow, no heart. The best thing was Topper the cat.

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