Good performances from Cornish, Whishaw and Schneider for a folks and costums movie.

You will enjoy it if you like the genre. If not ... well, probably it would be a slow and dull romantic drama for you.

Bright Star is the rare biopic of an artist that actually provides some insight into its subject’s craft. Usually, a film about a writer, including such recent examples as To Olivia (Roald Dahl) and The Laureate (Robert Graves), will approach the creative process as 99-percent inspiration and 1-percent actual work – and sometimes not even that. Writing is taken as matter of course; poems come out straight out of the author’s mouth, fully formed like Athena emerging from Zeus’s forehead.

Bright Star doesn’t dismiss the notion of divine inspiration, but it does not tacitly take it for granted... read the rest.