A thing of beauty is a joy forever, and Campion’s story of the tragic love affair of poet John Keats (Wishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Cornish) – he died at the age of 25 from tuberculosis – fits the bill to perfection.

Take one strange loner and a blow-up sex doll … and you have a surprisingly wonderful romantic comedy with lots of heart and insight and a palpable feel-good factor.

Green, a fine young director, brings us to a backwater world of small North Carolina towns and small, but finely detailed and observed, lives in this excellent film.

A US lawyer whose dogs mauled a neighbour to death was today facing life in jail after being found guilty of second-degree murder.