Sweetie: Jane Campion’s Experiment
By October 23, 2006
As it has evolved, Jane Campion’s body of work has come increasingly to exhibit a powerful unity, centered on a commitment to depicting the psychosexual realities of women’s lives Read more »
- New Zealand
- 1989
- 99 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- English
- Spine #356
SYNOPSIS: Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion will always be remembered for her stunning debut feature, Sweetie, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, Sweetie—and on their family’s profoundly rotten roots. A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, the tough and tender Sweetie heralded the emergence of this gifted director, as well as a renaissance of Australian cinema, which would take the film world by storm in the nineties.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Sweetie | Genevieve Lemon |
| Kay | Karen Colston |
| Louis | Tom Lycos |
| Gordon | Jon Darling |
| Flo | Dorothy Barry |
| Bob | Michael Lake |
| Clayton | Andre Pataczek |
Credits
| Director | Jane Campion |
| Producer | John Maynard |
| Coproducer | William MacKinnon |
| Screenplay | Gerard Lee and Jane Campion |
| From an original idea by | Jane Campion |
| Director of photography | Sally Bongers |
| Editor | Veronika Haussler |
| Music | Martin Armiger |
| Costume designer | Amanda Lovejoy |
| Art director | Peter Harris |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- Restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Sally Bongers and approved by director Jane Campion (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary featuring Campion, Bongers, and screenwriter Gerard Lee
- Making “Sweetie,” a video conversation between stars Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston
- Campion’s early short films An Exercise in Discipline: Peel, Passionless Moments, and A Girl’s Own Story
- Jane Campion: The Film School Years, a 1989 video conversation between Campion and critic Peter Thompson
- Behind-the-scenes photos and production stills
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Dana Polan
