Sweetie
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Director: Jane Campion
1989 / 99min / 35mm
A darkly comic study in sibling dynamics, family dysfunction, and the mundane menace of the Sydney suburbs, Sweetie stars Karen Colston as Kay, a brittle repressed, superstition-wracked twentysomething factory worker, and Geneviève Lemon as her sister, Dawn—nicknamed “Sweetie” by their unhappily married parents—a plump, bossy, slovenly brat who sabotages Kay’s feeble attempts to achieve bourgeois normalcy and stability. Skewed angles, unhinged behavior, and jarring tonal shifts abound in Campion’s remarkable debut feature, which doesn’t march to the beat of a different drummer so much as stagger about to arhythmic cacophony. “Most movies slide right through our minds without hitting anything. This one screams and shouts every step of the way.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
35mm print from the Chicago Film Society collection at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center.
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