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