(Sweetie)

Austrália, 1999

Duas irmãs, em seus 20 anos, seus pais e as disfunções familiares.

Kay visita uma vidente e esta revela que o grande amor de sua vida tem um sinal em forma de ponto de interrogação.... Coincidentemente uma amiga do trabalho está noiva de um rapaz com um sinal no rosto em forma de ponto de interrogação... Kay se casa com o rapaz.

Sweetie é direta, imperiosa, egoísta e tem problemas mentais. Os pais não percebem doença alguma, vendo-a somente como sua doce menina.

O filme relata o rumo da doença de Sweetie e como isso atrapalha a vida de Kay.

Biography for Jane Campion

Jane Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Having graduated with a BA in Anthropology from
Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and a BA, with a painting major, at Sydney College of the Arts in 1979, she began filmmaking in the early 1980s, attending the Australian School of Film and Television. Her first short film, Peel (1982) won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986. Her other short films include Passionless Moments (1983), Girl's Own Story, A (1984), 0086858 and the telefeature 2 Friends (1986) (TV), all of which won Australian and international awards. She co-wrote and directed her
first feature film, Sweetie (1989), which won the Georges Sadoul prize in 1989 for Best Foreign Film, as well as the LA Film Critics' New Generation Award in 1990, the American Independant Spirit Award for Best Foreign Feature, and the Australian Critics' Award for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress. She followed this with An Angel At My Table (1990), a
dramatization based on the autobiographies of Janet Frame which won some seven prizes, including the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1990 It was also awarded prizes at the Toronto and Berlin Film Festivals, again winning the American Independent Spirit Award, and was voted the most popular film at the 1990 Sydney Film Festival. Piano, The (1993) won the Palme D'Or at Cannes, making her the first woman ever to win the prestigious award. She also captured an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at
the 1993 Oscars, while also being nominated for Best Director.

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Spouse
'Colin Englert' (? - present)
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Trivia

Sister of Anna Campion

Daughter of Edith Campion

(1994) Daughter, Alice, born

(1993) Son, Jasper, born who died 12 days later.
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Personal quotes

"I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive."