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December 6

Fred Films | 7pm
Sweetie (Australia/1989/dir. by Jane Campion) 97 minutes
New Zealand-born Jane Campion began her career directing visually eccentric short films in Australia, where she had trained at the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School.   Sweetie , her first feature film, stars Geneviève Lemon as an unstable young woman who complicates the life of her sister Kay (Karen Colston). The film's quirky style, which resembled her earlier shorts, drew mixed reactions from audiences at Cannes. But Sweetie 's reputation has grown over the years, in part because its interest in the psychosexual lives of unusual female characters set the stage for Campion's later films such as Angel at My Table (1990), Holy Smoke! (1999), and the Oscar-winning The Piano (1993).

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