Sweetie

97 Minutes Australia

Sweetie

97 Minutes Australia

Jane Campion's stunning debut feature, “Sweetie” (1989), focuses on the hazardous relationship between the introverted, superstitious Kay and her eccentric, emotionally unstable sister, Sweetie, and their family's rotten roots.

A feast of colourful cinematography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, the tough and tender “Sweetie” heralded the emergence of this gifted director as well as the breakthrough of Australian cinema, which took the international film world by storm in the Nineties.

Year: 1989