From Fri. 16.1. to Sun. 18.1. the 23rd Mannheim Film Seminar will take place - the topic is the filmmaker Jane Campion, who will be examined in detail under the motto "In Dialogue: Psychoanalysis and Film Theory". Information and registration: https://cinema-quadrat.de/filmseminar/

BRIGHT STAR

GBR/AUS/FRA 2009. D: Jane Campion. D: Abbie Cornish, Ben Wishaw, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox. 120 min. DF. FSK: 6

1818: The young seamstress Fanny Brawne meets the penniless poet John Keats. Due to her lack of education, she has little interest in poetry, but is strangely moved. Although her mother and Keats' patron Brown are against it, she allows Keats to introduce her to the art of poetry and the two become a couple against social conventions.
Based on true events from the last years of Keats' life, the film tells the love story between the romantic poet and the clever and quick-witted dressmaker, documented in an exchange of letters and numerous poems - a love that is doomed to failure. And which the world only learned about after Fanny Brawne's death in 1965. "The film, which at times seems as tender and fragile as the relationship between Keats and Fanny, is a bittersweet ode to the beauty and pain of unrequited love." (Cinema)