Directed by Jane Campion. Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox, Edie Martin. Apparition.
Decent Films Ratings
| Overall Recommendability |
?A |
|---|---|
| Artistic/ Entertainment Value |
? |
| Moral/Spiritual Value (+4/-4) |
? +2 |
| Age Appropriateness |
?Teens & Up |
External Ratings
| MPAA | ?PG | USCCB | ?NA |
|---|
Content advisory: A curse word and a few sexual references; an out-of-wedlock pregnancy; bloody linens (in connection with tuberculosis).
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Note: This is a preview of the full review of this film. See the full review at NCRegister.com. The full review will appear here at Decent Films on March 17.
A National Catholic Register review
By Steven D. Greydanus
“Shall I give you Miss Brawne?” wrote the Romantic poet John Keats to his brother George in a letter dated Christmas Day, 1818.
In the following lines, Keats offered his impression of the teenaged girl next door, subjecting every feature of her appearance and behavior to brutal inspection: Pleasant horse face (“a fine style of countenance of the lengthened sort — she wants sentiment in every feature”); mouth “bad and good”; “manages to make her hair look well”; arms “good” but hands “baddish”; feet “tolerable.” Only her shape and movements were singled out for unmixed praise (“very graceful”).
“She is not seventeen,” he went on, “but she is ignorant — monstrous in her behaviour, flying out in all directions — calling people such names that I was forced lately to make use of the term Minx — this is I think not from any innate vice, but from a penchant she has for acting stylishly — I am however tired of such style and shall decline any more of it.”
Curiously, Miss Frances Brawne, or Fanny as she was called, expressed a rather different view of that Christmas Day, calling it “the happiest day I had ever then spent.” Clearly, Fanny knew something that Keats didn’t yet. …
