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Bright Star
Original Motion Picture Score
Lakeshore
"I have the feeling as if I were dissolving," the poet John Keats once wrote to Fanny Brawne, the fetching object of his affection. The trouble was, the tubercular Keats was dissolving, his health fading fast, his constitution rapidly weakening. Jane Campion's Bright Star tells the story of Keats and Brawne's short-lived but intense love affair and while it proves that love can inspire timeless art (Keats wrote "Bright Star" for Brawne) it also shows that love is never more ferocious than when it's running out of time. Consisting of original music by composer Mark Bradshaw and punctuated by spoken word performances from the film's stars themselves (Ben Whishaw and Abby Cornish), Bright Star's score is heart-swellingly poignant. "Negative Capability" (which takes its name from Keats' theory that one could only endure the ineffable questions of the world if they accept that there are no answers to them), is elegant and mysterious; "Human Orchestra" is a mournful acapella workout and "Ode To A Nightingale" is positively stirring.
—Alex Green
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