Three of her shorts were shown at the Film Center in the summer of 1988 one of them was codirected and cowritten by the Australian fiction writer Gerard Lee, who helped Campion with the screenplay of Sweetie, and two of them were shot by Sweetie’s cinematographer, Sally Bongers.
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Since 1981 she has done several shorts and TV projects. She attended college in Australia, studying painting, sculpture, and anthropology (her favorite teacher was a student of Claude Levi-Strauss), then went on to film school. Sweetie is the first theatrical feature by Campion, a New Zealand-born filmmaker now in her mid-30s. Even after three viewings spread out over half a year, I’m still racing after Jane Campion’s mind-boggling Sweetie, and I can’t claim fully to have caught up with it yet it keeps bolting and veering off with a mind and will of its own - one strong indication that it’s still very much alive and dangerous. Sometimes the arrival of a major talent is greeted by immediate fanfares but truly original talents, who often start well ahead of their audiences, sometimes have to wait things out. With Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Dorothy Barry, Jon Darling, Michael Lake, and Andre Pataczek. (I’ll never forget a bitter comment Jean-Luc Godard made to me in Toronto in 1996, citing Campion as a perfect example of a talented filmmaker “completely destroyed by money”.) But then again, to cite someone cross-referenced in this review (and also significantly cross-referenced in Top of the Lake, a kind of feminist response to Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks), it’s also hard to think of many David Lynch films that have lived up to the promise of Eraserhead, at least prior to Inland Empire….I suspect that the collaboration of writer Gerard Lee on Passionless Moments, Sweetie, and Top of the Lake has something to do with what makes all three of them stand out so vividly in Campion’s oeuvre.– J.R. I must confess that I was disappointed for a long time that none of Campion’s subsequent films lived up to the promise of Sweetie, in spite of the virtues of some of them, at least until her wonderful 2014 miniseries Top of the Lake, which I’ve just belatedly caught up with. From the Chicago Reader (March 30, 1990).
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