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Jane Campion’s period drama is a beautiful, simplistic story of doomed love, writes DONALD CLARKE

FIVE YEARS after the chaotic disaster that was In the Cut, Jane Campion has returned with a simple tale about a doomed love affair between two reasonably ordinary young people. Eschewing big themes and psychological analysis for an embrace of mood and superficial beauty, Bright Starfeels like an attempt to get back to basics. Here is a lovely garden. Here are some beautiful shots of dust caught in a late afternoon sunbeam. Here we see the lovers caught in a desperate last embrace.