This bittersweet love story from The Piano director Jane Campion reveals the inspiration behind some of the finest work of English Romantic John Keats, played here by a misty-eyed Ben Whishaw (Perfume: the Story of a Murderer, Brideshead Revisited). The film picks up on the poet's life when the tubercular 23-year-old is living in Hampstead, where his creative juices are reanimated by teenager Fanny Brawne (portrayed by a stern Abbie Cornish), who lives next door. A artistic talent herself - only in the area of fashion - the headstrong Brawne soon becomes a muse for the ailing Keats and an intense relationship is initiated. But the poet's ill-health casts a gloom over the picture-perfect romance, while his disapproving room-mate Charles Brown (Paul Schneider) also adds a touch of menace. There's a spellbinding, painterly quality to the way Campion depicts the changing seasons (between 1819 and 1820) and it sets a mood that complements the poet's vivid and sensuous style.

In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.