Directed by:
Jane CampionScreenplay:
Jane CampionCinematography:
Greig FraserComposer:
Mark BradshawCast:
Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Kerry Fox, Paul Schneider, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Jonathan Aris, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Amanda Hale (more)Plots(1)
London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. It was the illness of Keats’s younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touched by Fanny’s efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry. By the time Fanny’s alarmed mother and Keats’s best friend Brown realised their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensations, “I have the feeling as if I were dissolving”, Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only Keats’s illness proved insurmountable. (Pathé Distribution UK)
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Jane Campion's work is, in the best sense of the word, visceral. I'm glad she stuck to Keats' story. Her perception of the world lifted him up and reintroduced him. Beautiful images, realistic emotions, and of course excellent sets and costumes. It is a joy to experience such melancholy. I am looking forward to adding John Keats' letters and poems to Fanny Brawne in my library alongside Mozart's letters to Constance.
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