Bright Star - Fanny's reaction to John Keats' death (I do not own the rights to this movie)

6 November, 2009. Shot in the UK. NOT MY WORK
I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THIS MOVIE!
See below for Directors, crew member, cast and production companies.
It is a segment of a death scene to show actors and lover's of this movie the deep impact of the best crying scene of death news that I have ever seen.
In the movie Bright Star, actress Abbie Cornish portraying Frances 'Fanny' Brawne's reaction to knowledge of John Keats death. She recites John Keat's poem, 'Bright Star' at the end.
Bright Star (2009)
Directed by: Jane Campion
Written by:
Jane Campion ... (written by)
Jane Campion ... (screenplay)
Andrew Motion ... (biography "Keats")
Starring:
Abbie Cornish
Ben Whishaw
Production Companies
Pathé Renn Productions (presents) (as Pathe)
Screen Australia (presents)
BBC Films (presents)
UK Film Council (presents)
Produced by
Jan Chapman ...producer
Caroline Hewitt ...producer
François Ivernel ...executive producer (as Francois Ivernel)
Christine Langan ...executive producer
Emma Mager ...line producer
Cameron McCracken ...executive producer
David M. Thompson ...executive producer
Music by:
Mark Bradshaw
Cinematography by:
Greig Fraser ...director of photography
Film Editing by:
Alexandre de Franceschi

[@marineblehaut3595]

I showed that movie to all my closed friends and ... none of them liked it. They say it's too naive, to slow... What a disappointment. this movie is one of my favourite, and it's a relief to see that I'm not the only one who loves it.

[@paulmcgovern6660]

You have a well inside your soul.

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

You need new friends. Everyone I know - and I’m an English prof who had colleagues who worked on Keats - thought very highly of Campion’s film. It’s no dopey “Shakespeare in Love” that’s for sure.

[@marineblehaut3595]

@@4Mr.Crowley2 Damn. I want to meet those new friends :)

[@vonBottorff]

This and the 2011 _Jane Eyre_ are just about it. Everything else is to some degree modernist anachronistic triumphalism, i.e., aren't we so cool and sophisticated in the modern age; weren't they so simple-twee back then. No, they were as close to real as it could get, and these two films got some of this fact across.

[@khokandas617]

I love the movie a lot...😍

[@shonniegrl]

I was explaining this scene to my husband and burst out crying. This was one of the most honest and moving reactions to a loved ones death that I have ever seen on film. Abbie Cornish is an amazing actress and I can't wait to see what else she does next. Brilliant!

[@amparonarbona5142]

@@jcudal32 Sadly. Such a wasted talent

[@SoliDeoGloria2008]

I love how she goes back and forth at the base of the stairs like she's so pained that she's confused. Her shortness of breath and hiccuping is all so spot-on, it's frightening. I remember my mom just started breaking down when Fanny fell and tried to tell her mother she couldn't breathe. Feeling like your heart is ready to burst and every heartbeat pains you more than the one before. My mom said that's exactly how she felt when she was separated from my father by his family. Quite breathtaking.

[@bethferback5454]

All grief is different but losing my sister unexpectedly, this scene had me in tears and captured how it felt too well.

[@thaheeraalthaf1970]

I watched this film and I swear my heart exploded and had never been fully mended since the day I heard my favourite poet died thinking he was a failure.

[@leeannhelvenston5435]

Heartbreaking.

[@Colourshitx]

I remember I saw this on a plane to Thailand. I cried like a baby while flying right above the Himalayan mountains...

[@HommeTerre]

Wow

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

Beautiful image - very proper for a great Romantic poet like Keats actually! He would definitely have appreciated this!

[@nilob8274]

The most heart-wrenching cry and sorrow I've ever heard in film/TV. Outstanding acting. This is such a beautiful film.

[@leeannhelvenston5435]

Absolutely. And the costumes were superb.

[@kezzamac9658]

I was a mess!

[@Diana-om9xm]

Yes, this movie is superb ! We can feel the emotions of the caracters so much ! And Fanie wow !

[@lachiem5298]

no

[@nilob8274]

@@lachiem5298 yes

[@purpleshamrock17]

:45-1:48 Best and most realistic crying scene in a movie. EVER! It's so raw and real and just...amazing. The part where she cries out his name was heartwrenching. The whole ending made me cry. A beautiful film that a beautiful poet like Keats, deserves.

[@kezzamac9658]

Heartbreaking

[@CraziRanger]

No movie has devastated me as much as this movie did when i first saw it. This scene still brings tears to my eyes. I wasnt myself for a good week afterwards :'(

[@salaino1452]

best crying scene i've ever seen. watching this alone made me burst into tears

[@MelBee128]

This is absolutely brilliant. The raw emotion of Fanny (Abbie Cornish) is absolutely amazing. I watched this movie because I had to in preparation for the Golden Globes. But this scene stayed with me. Part of it I think is Jane Campion's decision to keep the camera on Fanny when she breaks down. Directors have a tendency to allow you to see the person mourn and cut away. She doesn't do that. She stays with her. Awesome

[@rajeshsengupta737]

I understand what you mean and I agree with you

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

This is one of the most realistic and devastating depictions of the sledgehammer feeling of this kid of loss. When she starts gasping for air - very realistic - it kills me.

[@CraziRanger]

No matter how many times i see this ending i always end up balling my eyes out. Their love was sooo beatiful, its a tragedy that they couldnt have a full life together :'(

[@kizzyfaced]

i have seen this movie a dozen times. Everytime, everytime without fail, this scene has me bawling along with Fanny, utterly feeling her pain and grief. The unbearable, overwhelming feeling of loss. She is an amazing actress..

[@liquidstone14]

my god. she's so, so good that it's a little scary.

[@8Jud3]

LOVED THIS FILM! Abbie portrayed perhaps the most authentic reaction to grief--I know.

[@samantharozyczko6549]

Even years later I still crying watching this. Breath hitching type of crying.

[@FabinhoFlapp]

Cornish ia great here. Still can't understand how she wasn't nominated to Oscars and more awards awards that year. Only Carey Mulligan in "An Educatoon" was better that year.

[@OOjuniperberry]

This scene is absolutely incredible and I always cry watching it. I wish a knew how Abbie Cornish manages to cry is such a genuine, raw way. Brilliant!

[@shabirmagami146]

Loved this scene ...brilliant ...

[@betulyldrm946]

I came to cry again. Never i forget this scene

[@missdee4927]

Never seen a crying scene more true to what I have experienced. I heard she used her sorrow over learning of former costar Heath Ledger's death for this scene.

[@kassalee]

I was watching this movie on my laptop with headphones and I sobbed so hard through this scene. My partner was so stunned. Abbie Cornish is an amazing actress!!

[@realisezmoi]

i watched this when i was a young teen & i was affected by her performance, but also thought it was a little overdone. i'm older now & have lost people, and have come so close to losing other people, and so now all i feel is solidarity. she did it really well. realistic af. 10/10

[@leeannhelvenston5435]

One of my favorite movies. Beautiful and so tragic.

[@shadownlite]

"I can't breathe!"

[@vonBottorff]

What a universe opened to them with death. Today we medicate, counsel, chivvy people like Fanny along through "stages of grief." Right... Queen Victoria wore mourning black for forty years till her own death after her husband died.

[@gabriss9]

Such a beautifully raw portrait

[@AcademyAwardsPerson]

And to think, Sandra fuckin' Bullock won the Oscar that year. And she wasn't even nominated.

[@FabinhoFlapp]

A shame!

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

Ugh - and that film has been forgotten and (rightly I think) panned for its clunky depiction of race. Yes I know it’s based on a “true” story but the whole white rich af savior thing is rather gross.

[@marmorkuchen77]

To see that portrayed on film hit me hard. I have experienced this. Exactly this. This sort of pain. Not from the passing of a loved one though. I have never recovered from this.

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

The mother and Keat’s friend Mr. Brown (who is actually an American actor and Abby is Australian!) do a brilliant job as well. The pain on the mother’s face!

[@vonBottorff]

Above you say you're an English professor. You'd be one of the few I've ever encountered who actually had a clue and wasn't a patronising, self-important, clueless paper-typer. Sorry, but English departments seem to attract the most clueless people, especially when it comes to this era in English lit. More than willing to be proved wrong, though.

[@LuceHikari]

I cry everytime. I cry all the tears I got inside. :(

[@pompng]

Powerful performance by Abby. Wow!!!

[@AleyTheFreak55]

Ive never cried so hard in my life! I'm sobbing so hard right now :'(

[@catgordon1372]

Y'all, I'm writing a paper on this film for my nineteenth-century women in film class, and I just wanted you to read this bullshit review: "Nor will Abbie Cornish’s exaggerated and prolonged hysterics at the foot of the stairs on hearing of his death generate much additional sympathy for Fanny Brawne." Of course, this was written by a man: Grant F. Scott. I was dumbfounded when I read it though, and I thought to myself: holy shit, this man knows nothing of good acting or human emotions. I haven't even watched the entire movie -- this is the only scene I've watched -- and it still made me bawl my eyes out.

[@LOUISE__97]

Yep. Raw displays of female emotion trigger men. "Exaggerated" oh my word...this was the most real display of a woman's grief I've ever seen. So much so that I thought about it randomly all these years later and just had to see it again. So glad it's been uploaded.

[@narnilawson869]

This broke my heart when I first watched the movie, and it’s breaking me all over again.

[@fuzy04]

AMAZING scene. This part is too too sad man, and she makes the part come to life for real...simply amazing acting!

[@ggfanjase]

This tore me apart when I first saw it. And I'm not a big romantic movie crier at ALL.

[@kmpiano1]

I was bawling by the end, but I especially find it very touching when she was reciting the poem at the end...

[@auroraborealis183]

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors- No-yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon to death.

[@laviniacapogna4]

Great actress. The place in the first scene of the video is Spain Square ( Piazza di Spagna ) in Rome

[@alsan623]

This scene and the final scene in Immortal Beloved absolutely leveled me ... for weeks thereafter randomly tearing up, it was ridiculous.

[@Jingaling1]

This scene hit me like a tonne of bricks.

[@teresinakubatt1483]

This is so real. I remember myself. She is so close to my heart.

[@1969sonar]

This is pretty much exactly the way I reacted when I heard that the love of my life had died. It's like you're trying to hold on to random things because you're afraid that the ground is going to fall from under your feet. And crying and calling for anybody to help you, but no one can. The pain is so bad that you don't know what to do to make it go away and you just panic...😢

[@kessesini13]

such a good performance!! :'(

[@khokandas617]

The intense pain what Fanny is feeling now is inexpressible.

[@emilyalachopin4175]

Never fails to make me cry... Heartbreaking.

[@rosdreamer19]

Still makes me cry every time! Beautiful movie.

[@shalimarsgirl]

Oh death, how you sting. Death, I despise you! The pain never ends. The love never ends. The tears may stop for a moment, then fall again. That's life. That's love. That's death. What an incredible actress she is, to take the sorrow from our own souls and show us how much we ache for life and profound love.

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

Death doesn’t discriminate Between the sinners and the saints It takes and it takes and it takes

[@michaeldslipp1078]

The scene where she presents to Keats the beautiful pillow slip she’s just sewn for his dead brother Tom’s coffin is just as good.

[@ikzvanhoque1754]

Heartfelt acting. Incredible!

[@mkinsella8592]

The majority of the brightest artist's who are now gone, and the ones living today, unfortunately, operate in a society where the artist is misunderstood. Vincent is another that quickly comes to mind. Even the pot painters in ancient Greece were considered at the bottom rung of society. Most artists do not care... they are fulfilling a need for a fix.

[@adrian102030]

I nearly died the first time I saw this scene.

[@mn4169]

I love this movie so much.

[@zoebowie42]

whenever i walk over hampstead heath i can't help but recite Bright star to myself

[@brunahadassa14]

Eu ja assisti mil vezes essa cena e sempre me emociono. Abbie foi brilhante! Abbie makes me cry every time I watch this scene. She's amazing!

[@vodkagal28]

Why didn't she go with him? This reaction makes me cry my eyes out!

[@HommeTerre]

Love that's folk

[@user-oc6mr1jr6s]

I wonder if the reason for her being so close to left part of frame is to make us feel uneasy?

[@JLamstudio]

Great freakin’ movie. Maybe too beautiful for our modern world. And not as appreciated as it should be. Just like Keating.

[@SpockLover27]

I love this scene, so emotional... But I would adore you if you uploaded the scene where Brown tells Fanny that he failed John Keats. That scene was heart wrenching for me, and I can't seem to find it anywhere.

[@missdee4927]

I thought that was bad acting. He was the weak point of the movie.

[@brucas31]

This movie is a jewel. it's amazing what jane campion did. Could someone tell me the name of the song at the very end of the video with the violin (we can only hear a bit)?

[@lucabasso94]

best scene, but also I loved after the first kiss when they were playing with the girl

[@YannissaWa]

I cry every time...Oh dear.

[@winnerACE1109]

the first time i watched this scene, i was about to cry when my stupid sister came and interrupted me.... and i hated it, cuz i so love to cry while watchin movies!!! and theres no other first time!!!!!!!!!

[@georgiumsidusalien2943]

how did keats die?

[@sergiomura1613]

Tuberculosis

[@georgiumsidusalien2943]

@@sergiomura1613 ahh thanks

[@obiwanobiwan13]

As much as I want to feel terribly for Ms. Brawne... I can't help feeling selfish even more and feeling sorry for US! Dead at 25! One of the greatest poets in the English language, maybe the greatest of the Romantics, mentioned in the same breath as such titans as Shakespeare and Milton and Tennyson and T.S. Eliot! And all that attributed to a man who died at 25! IMAGINE what he might have produced! John Keats and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart--gone too soon, but they live on FOREVER!!!

[@sumairamahar9970]

I wish to see this movie how could I get that

[@ialwaysforgetmyid2]

@Tigerlily21 where can I watch "Candy" ? Im dying..

[@HommeTerre]

#resilience

[@Rayan-bv1rp]

😣😖😭

[@NLspartan117]

@littlemissflo How can you say "it should be"? Modern reality still includes love like this and love can't deal with how things should be, it's the opposite.

[@graceghazaii4434]

Did people really behave like this in 1800s England? Or was this made to appeal to modern audience as authentic show of grief, because if it's internal and self-composed it doesn't count, right? What a drama queen, she's so melodramatic, so histrionic. "I ca, ca, ca, can't breathe!" One wonders if her reaction would have been same had she been alone. (No dis at Campion or Cornish, love em both.)

[@pinkparis]

You time traveled from the 1800s to know how people grieved?

[@kizzyfaced]

i have seen this movie a dozen times. Everytime, everytime without fail, this scene has me bawling along with Fanny, utterly feeling her pain and grief. The unbearable, overwhelming feeling of loss.