Sweetie

Sweetie is refreshingly free of groaningly meaningful symbols, like a grand piano that stays in tune even after a week's abandonment in the ocean surf. Sweetie is definitely original and many audiences have also found it to be hilarious. ... Full Review

you," whoever you are, will enjoy a movie or not.....In the early days (suggested in flashbacks), Dad spoiled Sweetie.... ... Full Review

you," whoever you are, will enjoy a movie or not.....But this movie is real, it's the genuine article....It is a story with a realistic origin, told with a fresh and bold eye.....photographed by Sally Bongers, whose compositions and color sense give everything a sensation of heightened reality, or unreality..... ... Full Review

Sweetie on a gorgeous new DVD....the film's quirky emotional tone....better at the essence of cinema.... ... Full Review

Australian filmmaker Jane Campion directs the darkly humorous family drama Sweetie . ... Full Review

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. TWENTY years ago, before women's films got clogged with man-made ugly truths, proposals, cave men who are just not that into you and very little sex in the city, a young New Zealander busted her way into... ... Full Article

Sweetie is a strange experience, a movie made up almost exclusively out of hints and suggestions. Nothing is ever discussed outright in this amazingly nuanced narrative, and issues that appear to be boiling below the surface are simply allowed to... ... Full Article

Pic, which shot under the title "Bloody Weekend," is first feature by U.K.-based Anna Campion, sibling of Kiwi director Jane, following two shorts. Billed as the first Anglo-N.Z. co-production, it's produced on the latter side by Bridget Ikin ("An Angel... ... Full Article

Jane Campion's directorial debut features squabbling sisters and general family dysfunction. But the focus is on the girls played by Genevi?ve Lemon and Karen Colston, only one of whom has progressed (barely) into adulthood. ... Full Article