A thing of beauty is a joy forever, its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23-year-old English poet, John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne. When she asks him to teach her about poetry, he agrees.
The poetry soon becomes a romantic remedy that works not only to sort their differences, but fuel an impassioned love affair. "I have the feeling as if I was dissolving", Keats writes.
When Keats falls ill a year later, the two young lovers face not marriage, but separation. In Keats' own poignant words, "forever panting and forever young".
Starring:
Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox
Director:
Jane Campion
Producers:
Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt, Jane Campion
Screenplay:
Jane Campion
Executive Producers:
Francois Ivernel, Christine Langan, Cameron McCracken, David M. Thompson
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Credits summary:
Pathé Productions, Film Finance Corporation Australia, ±«Óãtv Films and the UK Film Council present in association with the New South Wales Film and Television Office and Hopscotch International
Certificate:
PG
Running time:
118 mins
Released:
6 November 2009
Out on DVD:
8 March 2010