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Article: AS KEATS BLEATS, WE YAWN; Jane Campion's comeback transforms the legendary poet into a pathetic wimp.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Byline: by Chris Tookey
Bright Star (PG) Verdict: Dull movie **
A Christmas Carol (PG) Verdict: Commendably faithful to Dickens ***
BRIGHT STAR is New Zealander Jane Campion's comeback film, six years after In The Cut, her ill-advised venture into feminist serial-killing. She's returned to the costume romance, which won her rave reviews for The Piano and polite ones for The Portrait Of A Lady.
Bright Star records the love affair between teenager Fanny Brawne and poet John Keats, her sometime next-door neighbour in the then unfashionable village of Hampstead, London. It is seen very much through Fanny's eyes, as a chaste but heightened ...