Jane Campion's first feature, Sweetie, about two competitively dysfunctional out-of-the-nest sisters, weaves oddball charm, art school inscrutability, and Sally Bongers' painterly cinematography into a sui generis tapestry.
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In a making-of, Lemon says Campion encouraged her to throw on-set
tantrums to ''galvanize everything.'' The commentary betrays a friendly
but piquant tension between Campion and co-writer/erstwhile lover Gerard
Lee, who, to this day, seems bedeviled by her (and Bongers') ''If it's
interesting it's working'' attitude.
