{"id":12650,"date":"2018-06-12T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12650"},"modified":"2018-06-12T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:28:58","slug":"bright-star-2009-jane-campion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12650","title":{"rendered":"Bright Star (2009, Jane Campion)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watched for Cannes Month before the actual festival began… this is from the year of The White Ribbon<\/a><\/em> and Broken Embraces<\/a><\/em>, A Prophet<\/a><\/em> and Antichrist<\/a><\/em>. Another story of a doomed poet, this time from the perspective of a girl who loved him, and maybe that’s what made the difference, because I liked A Quiet Passion<\/a><\/em> a fair bit, but fell for this one completely.<\/p>\n

Lovely, sensitive Abbie Cornish (Somersault<\/em>) is in love with frail poet Ben Whishaw (Cloud Atlas<\/a><\/em>, Nathan Barley<\/em>, Ariel in The Tempest<\/a><\/em>), and I’m sure that due to social class difference this is a terrible scandal, because it always is in movies, but I appreciate that they downplayed that element. We vaguely recognized Ben’s sardonic friend Paul Schneider, but didn’t realize who he was, since we haven’t thought about him since Water for Elephants<\/a><\/em>. He was great, and indeed he won fourth place in the Skandies that year. Abbie’s mom, Kerry Fox, starred in Shallow Grave<\/em>, which I guess I haven’t seen in twenty years. Really nice music, and the Australian Film Institute thought so too, but apparently not as nice as the music in Animal Kingdom<\/em>. The writeup in Film Quarterly is good, so maybe come back to that, since I took poor notes on the story and characters myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watched for Cannes Month before the actual festival began… this is from the year of The White Ribbon and Broken Embraces, A Prophet and Antichrist. Another story of a doomed poet, this time from the perspective of a girl who loved him, and maybe that’s what made the difference, because I liked A Quiet Passion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,2308,327,268],"class_list":["post-12650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-doomed-love","tag-jane-campion","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12669,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions\/12669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}