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Article: Jane Campion's "Bright Star" shines with poetic grace
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- Oakland Tribune
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- September 17, 2009
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SOMETIMES IT'S the quiet films that speak the loudest.
Take, for example, acclaimed director Jane Campion's new movie
"Bright Star."
Set in 19th-century England and exploring the doomed love affair
between poet John Keats and talented seamstress Fanny Brawne,
"Bright Star" could have been a big, messy biopic.
Instead, in the hands of the director known for a number of
highly original, if not always commercially successful, films such
as 1993's multi-award-winning "The Piano," the picture is anything
but showy.
"Bright Star" is, however, an exquisitely restrained mood piece
with a delicate yet fiery core. It's also full of Campion's unique
brand of visual poetry: soft light, the sound of ...