Quality | 2009.11.08
Bright Star (PG)
Costume drama has an image problem. For many viewers, the very genre is inherently trivial, fixated on surface beauty and reassuring nostalgia. I admit I often incline to this prejudice, suspicious at the faintest whiff of Quality Street. But if any film vindicates this strain of cinema, Jane Campion\'s Bright Star is it. Portraying the romance between a man of words and a woman of fashion, Bright Star is itself a musing on the costume drama, on the question of style and substance, on the respective powers of language and image to evoke bygone mores and present emotions.
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