Bright Star, Jane Campion, 2009

Campion's Romantic (as in the poets) period drama is stylish and assured in the same refreshing, post Merchant-Ivory fashion as Joe Wright's sturdy Pride and Prejudice. What's unfortunate is that her film rests on a less than fully formed narrative, with too familiar bouts of hand-wringing and forlorn pining taking the place of more legitimate dramatic tensions.