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This weekend we went to see Jane Campions’s, Bright Star, about John Keats love affair with his next door neighbor Fanny Brawne. It’s such an exquisite film with its delicious color and textures, the furniture, the teapots, the linen, the butterflies, the flowers, the handmade chapeau….and THE LIGHT. Everything in this film is so lovely and romantic and English! I wanted to jump inside and live there. The story, of course, chronicles a besotted Keats and Brawne and the poetry/letters their love inspired - You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving. [Sigh] Oh, to live the gentle life.

Here is a review of film, interpreting Campion’s unique approach to the affair, which focuses on Brawne as much if not more than Keats, worth reading if you liked the film. In retrospect, I can see how Campion chose to focus more on the “stuff” of Keats writing, rather than Keats himself.

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Published:
10.18.09 / 3pm
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