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Sweetie 1989
Jane Campion emerges a fully-formed auteur in Sweetie, her first theatrically released film, about an already broken family's futile attempts to unbreak itself. Like so much of her best work, it becomes a very melancholy study of characters who seem not fit for this world – too eccentric, too out there, not normal enough – but here that melancholy is but an aftertaste, and the film at large is in fact brimming with character, imagination and deadpan humor. It's indie…
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