Bright Star

Release Date: September 16, 2009

Runtime: 119 min

Language: English

Tagline: First Love Burns Brightest

Director: Jane Campion

Who's In It:

Ben Whishaw as John Keats
Paul Schneider as Charles Armitage Brown
Abbie Cornish as Frances Brawne, Fanny
Kerry Fox as Mrs. Brawne
Edie Martin as Margaret Brawne, Toots
Thomas Sangster as Samuel Brawne
Gerard Monaco as Charles Dilke
Samuel Roukin as John Reynolds
Amanda Hale as Reynolds' Sister I
Lucinda Raikes as Reynolds' Sister II
Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Abigail O'Donaghue Brown

Soundtrack / Songs: Bright Star Original Soundtrack - Various Artists - 2009

1. Negative Capability
2. Belle Dame Sans Merci - Ben Whishaw
3. Return
4. Human Orchestra - Samuel Barnett, Mark Bradshaw, Daniell Johnston, Ben Whishaw, Cameron Woodhouse
5. Convulsion
6. Bright Star
7. Letters
8. Yearning
9. Ode to a Nightingale

Quotes From Brght Star:

Fanny Brawne: You know I would do anything
John Keats: I have a conscience.

John Keats: I had such a dream last night. I was floating above the trees with my lips connected to those of a beautiful figure, for what seemed like an age. Flowery treetops sprung up beneath us and we rested on them with the lightness of a cloud.
Fanny Brawne: Who was the figure?
John Keats: I must have had my eyes closed because I can't remember.
Fanny Brawne: And yet you remember the treetops.
John Keats: Not so well as I remember the lips.
Fanny Brawne: Whose lips? Were they my lips?

Charles Armitage Brown: I failed John Keats. I did not know til now how tightly he wound himself around my heart.

John Keats on poetry: It ought to come like leaves to a tree, or it better not come at all.

Fanny Brawne walked the Heath for many years, often far into the night. She never forgot John Keats or removed his ring. / Keats died at twenty five, believing himself a failure. Today he is recognised as one of the greatest of the Romantic Poets.