An Education & Bright Star

[dpgmel]

Both these Brit films are released on dvd Monday, haven't seen either so am eagerly anticipating them

[CaptainWaggett]

I thought it was a real shame Bright Star didn't get much distribution - it deserved quite as much acclaim as An Education got (though the latter was very good) and featured an absolutely superb perfomance from Abby Cornish.

[Windyridge]

name='CaptainWaggett']I thought it was a real shame Bright Star didn't get much distribution - it deserved quite as much acclaim as An Education got (though the latter was very good) and featured an absolutely superb perfomance from Abby Cornish.

Couldn't agree more, I thought she was fantastic in this. Wonderful cozzies too - particularly in the bonnet department!

[CaptainWaggett]

name='Windyridge']Couldn't agree more, I thought she was fantastic in this. Wonderful cozzies too - particularly in the bonnet department!

Oh yes, so much bonnet-porn. And it had the marvellous Claudie Blakley as every good costume drama should.

[Rob Compton]

Mrs C and I enjoyed "Bright Star" very much - excellent in all regards!



rgds

Rob

[AdrianTurner]

Just watched the Blu-ray version of An Education . . . I didn't see the picture at the old kinema but I enjoyed it hugely yesterday afternoon, following the deadly dull Bahrain Grand Prix. I particularly liked the relaxed but wholly convincing period setting and ambience, and the way they didn't over-egg it by nudging references to the outside world. Smashing cast and it reminded me a great deal about my own teenage years. On the accompanying doco someone talks about how Britain was slowly emerging from the b&w years of the 40s and 50s into the Technicolor 60s when in fact, speaking of the cinema, it was the other way around. The deleted scenes are well worth seeing - a surprising amount of footage was cut, including a separate, additional and much better ending.

[sippog]

I'm a fan of other Jane Campion films (SWEETIE, THE PIANO) but I found BRIGHT STAR jarringly anachronistic from pretty well the opening shot. I didn't necessarily expect - or want - the starchy acting style of a BBC period drama but a lot of this was almost at pitched at the Ramsay Street level. I couldn't finish watching it.