Though she went on to create a string of briIIiant films, Jane Campion wiII always be remembered for her stunning debut feature, Sweetie, which focuses on the hazardous reIationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, deviI-may-care sister, "Sweetie" - and, by extension, their entire famiIy's rotten roots. A feast of coIorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, the tough and tender Sweetie heraIded the emergence of this gifted director as welI as the breakthrough of Australian cinema, which would take the international film world by storm in the nineties. |