Film Review: BRIGHT STAR « THE HOT PINK PEN

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Film Review: BRIGHT STAR

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BRIGHT STAR is the story of a woman named Fanny Brawne who falls deeply and hopelessly in love with a frail young poet. After he’s dead, this man becomes the famous John Keats, but when she first meets him, John is a lonely, solitary fellow with sad eyes and thin shoulders. John dedicates poems to Fanny (some of which are now considered great treasures of the English language), and he sends her swooning letters filled with sensuous imagery. Fanny is in a fever as she wanders the heath awaiting his next letter. Young girls long for this romantic enthrall; grandmothers reminisce about it tenderly, and in BRIGHT STAR, Fanny’s mother and sister live vicariously through every moment of exaltation and despair. I went back to see BRIGHT STAR a second time, and all I could think was: “Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all!”

Pen’s Points: cccc½½

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