Weekend Movie Forecast: The Informant! Vs. Jennifer's Body

Set in 1818, Jane Campion's Bright Star concerns the secret love affair between the young, short-lived English Romantic poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, and outspoken student of fashion. The New Yorker's David Denby assures readers it's "not the kind of portentous bio-pic in which history, like some sort of hooded eagle, perches on the shoulders of every scene, waiting to soar. Campion, who wrote the script as well as directed, keeps the action day-by-day, small-scale, and casually lyrical...In some ways, Bright Star is a conventional tale of frustrated young love... What makes the movie extraordinary, however, is not so much the portrait of a poet as the accuracy and the detail of the period re-creation."