![]() ![]() Sweetie confirms Campion as a highly original movie talent. Amazingly, as she veers without warning from black comedy to bleak melodrama and back again, she manages to make us laugh at and like her confused, barely articulate characters, so that her dénouement is simultaneously ludicrous and deeply affecting. Campion's first theatrical feature is a remarkable, risky exploration of the weird and wonderfully surreal undercurrents that can lie just beneath the surface of everyday suburban life, ordinary folk harbour dark, unfathomable obsessions, phobias and desires, and a familiar world is unsettlingly distorted by grotesque close-ups, harsh overhead angles and narrative ellipses. And all the aforementioned is played, partly, as comedy. Jane Campions stunning debut feature, Sweetie, focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, 'Sweetie, and by extension, their entire familys rotten roots. The Streamable uses JustWatch data but is not endorsed by JustWatch. Sweetie Trailer Where can you watch Sweetie online Suggested Movies The Streamable uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb. (See 'An Angel at my Table' if you like this one) She has a unique vision on life, and most every aspect of the film is hers - from concept and writing to the directing. Sweetie (1989) R About Sweetie An introspective young woman’s life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister. The film was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film in 1991. It stars Geneviève Lemon, Karen Colston, Jon Darling, Dorothy Barry, and Tom Lycos. It is director Jane Campion’s first feature film. When the latter and her bombed-out boyfriend (Lake) arrive unannounced at the suburban home Kay shares with her equally loopy lover Lou (Lycos), all hell breaks loose. 'Sweetie' (Australian, 1989): Jane Campion is one of my favorite 'newer' film makers. Dawn (Genevive Lemon), who goes by Sweetie, is plump, lively and somewhat. Sweetie is a 1989 Australian drama and black comedy film. ![]() Kay (Colston) fears darkness and the secret, stifling power of plants her teenage sister Dawn (Lemon) is crazy, throwing tantrums at all and sundry, and dreaming, unrealistically, of stardom. ![]()
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