Sweetie (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion (THE PIANO, BRIGHT STAR) will always be remembered for her knockout debut feature, SWEETIE, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, Sweetie and on their family's profoundly rotten roots. A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, SWEETIE heralded the emergence of this gifted director, as well as a renaissance of Australian cinema, which would take the film world by storm in the nineties.

Starring: Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Jon Darling, Dorothy Barry, Barbara Middleton, Ben Cochrane, Bronwyn Morgan, Bruce Currie, Cedric McLaughlan, Charles Abbott, Diana Armer, Doug Ramsey, Emma Fowler, Irene Curtis, Ken Porter, Kristoffer Pershouse, Larry Brand, Norm Galton, Robyn Frank, Sean Callinan, Sean Fennell, Shirley Sheppard, Warren Hensley, Michael Lake, Andre Pataczek, Jean Hadgraft, Paul Livingston, Louise Fox, Ann Merchant, John Negroponte, Gerard Lee, Norman Phillips

Director: Billy Fine, Christopher Pearce, John Maynard, Mark L. Rosen, Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus