Jane Campion’s last movie, The Bright Star, is a historical drama based on the biography of the romantic English poet John Keats.
Very intensely performed by Ben Whishaw, who one would think was born to be John Keats, and Abbie Cornish, in the role of his neighbour Fanny Brawne, a creative romantic heroine, the film focused on the poet’s short life, his last years and their love affair. “A poem needs understanding through the senses” said Keats to Fanny. One should try to do the same to understand the film.
As in the best tradition of Romanticism, Nature is an important character: speechlessly and through the colourful shapes of its weather and its seasons, it spoke as much as the actors did and the exterior landscapes reflected interior ones.
Bright and fulgent from the beginning (a close-up of a needle and a thread penetrating a white cloth) to the end (the edge of the tragedy that one should discover by himself), the movie can hardly be described other than as a masterpiece of beauty, refinement and sensibility.
In art, Romanticism, with its endless stretches his natural color was represented as two great artists such as John Constable and JMW Turner.
RispondiEliminaJohn Constable prefers to portray the landscape painting with natural light and bright.
Turner instead in his paintings is known for its picturesque settings in which he portrays a very personal style, with natural light and atmospheric effects on views anticipation of Impressionism.
I think art is like poetry to be perceived through the senses, as described by the poet John Keats