Stedfast as Thou Art': Bright Star

Jane Campion's tender portrait of John Keats and Fanny Brawne looks beyond the poetry while also using it as a guide for this meditative and sensory filmmaking style, writes Jasmine Crittenden. Additional keywords: film as text, senior secondary, literature, tertiary, Romantic poetry, period film, The Piano, An Angel at My Table, The Portrait of a Lady, 1800s, romance, love, nature, negative capability, Andrew Motion, Mark Bradshaw, A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson, Mozart, Janet Patterson, space, light, tribute.