Bright Star

I am in love with the movie "Bright Star". Jane Campion has written the screenplay and directed the film which is an Australian-British co-production filmed in England.  The English country side is perfectly portrayed, displaying delightful visions of mossy moors and flowing fields of lavender flowers.   


Everyone involved did a beautiful job but it was Abbie Cornish who stole everyones heart. Frances "Fanny" Brawne is an enchanting outspoken young woman who loves her family. She is a student of fashion and designs outrageous outfits. She seems so extrodinary but is really just ordinary.


This film conjures wistful thoughts and dreams of that first love that got away, steeling kisses in the afternoon sun. It certainly bought out the hopeless romantic in me. "I have the feeling as if I were dissolving" writes Keats.     


I certainly recommend seeing this movie and give it 5 stars.

"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death". John Keats.