What is Bright Star / Sweetie about?

BRIGHT STAR, 2009, Apparition, 119 min. Jane Campion's latest film follows the true-life relationship between poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his neighbor Fanny Brice (Abbie Cornish), whose passionate feelings for each other are continually thwarted by John's illness and societal pressures. Paul Schneider plays Keats' jealous best friend. SWEETIE, 1989, Avenue Pictures Productions, 97 min. Jane Campion's first theatrical feature follows two sisters in a highly dysfunctional family who engage in a physical and psychological battle of wills. Their father only adds to their problems when his wife leaves him to fend for himself, turning the family home into a darkly comic war zone.

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What is Bright Star / Sweetie about?: BRIGHT STAR, 2009, Apparition, 119 min. Jane Campion's latest film follows the true-life relationship between poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his neighbor Fanny Brice (Abbie Cornish), whose passionate feelings for each other are continually thwarted by John's illness and societal pressures. Paul Schneider plays Keats' jealous best friend.
SWEETIE, 1989, Avenue Pictures Productions, 97 min. Jane Campion's first theatrical feature follows two sisters in a highly dysfunctional family who engage in a physical and psychological battle of wills. Their father only adds to their problems when his wife leaves him to fend for himself, turning the family home into a darkly comic war zone.