A recipient of the Palme d’Or, the Silver Lion, and an Academy Award, Jane Campion is one of the most successful female directors in the history of cinema.Campion’s first feature film, “Sweetie” premiered at Cannes in 1989 where it was greeted with boos but has since been claimed as a hallmark of the director’s iconoclastic style, with its black humor, striking visuals and its penetrating look at dysfunctional suburban family life.

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