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A love story without sex? 'Bright Star' does the impossible

Posted on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

Oscar winning writer-director Jane Campion certainly had her work cut out for her with Bright Star.

Not only is the main character long since dead Romantic poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) but his passionate romance with witty fashionista Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) is largely played out on paper and not, as is so often the case, in the bedroom. Try selling that to a "Girls Gone Wild"-reared society.

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'Bright Star' offers modern look at Keats' romance

Posted on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

Contemporary audiences will be forgiven their ignorance about Fanny Brawne and John Keats, those other star-crossed lovers whose brief but intense courtship inspired some of the most beloved writing and prolific prose ever conceived.

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