Flirting tips from Keats

"Bright Star," a biopic about the romance between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne (whose letters scandalized the public of the day) opens this week in limited release. Looks like a renter to me, but A.O. Scott had a good time:

A sequence in which, fully clothed, the couple trades stanzas of “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” in a half-darkened bedroom must surely count as one of the hottest sex scenes in recent cinema.

It's worth noting that Keats is played by Ben Whishaw, last seen as the monomaniac in Tom Tykwer's adaptation of PERFUME (but also quite good, briefly, in "I'm Not There"). According to IMDb he's playing Ariel in the upcoming Julie Taymor-directed version of "The Tempest" opposite Djimon Hounsou's Caliban and Helen Mirren as Prospera.