Bright Star (2009)
Bright Star: a portrait of love and loss.
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, her 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.
Soundtrack
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Arranged by Mark Bradshaw - "Serenade in B flat, K361, Adagio" (1781)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart From the Album "Regency Ballroom English Country Dance Music from the Era of Jane Austen" - Arranged and Performed by Spare Parts, Bill Matthiesen, Liz Stell, Eric Buddington - "The Sussex Waltz, K536 No.2 (Trio)"(1788)
Thomas Wilson From the Album "Regency Ballroom English Country Dance Music from the Era of Jane Austen" - Arranged and Performed by Spare Parts, Bill Matthiesen, Liz Stell, Eric Buddington - "Scotch Reel and Bonnie Highland Laddie"(1816)