Campion delivers a light touch to the film’s early scenes, although the tone darkens when Ruth and P.J. Waters (Harvey Keitel) who specializes in deprogramming members of cults, and the two, not surprisingly, clash. Back home, she meets famed American exit counselor P.J. With a script co-written with her sister Anna, Campion takes on cult deprogramming in this comedy/drama that features Kate Winslet as Ruth, a 20-something Australian who falls under the spell of an Indian guru and must be rescued by her concerned parents. Starring: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton, Tim Robinson, Pam Grier However, in recent years, “In the Cut” has been reappraised by many as a feminist erotic thriller, subverting the genre by refusing to view its story through a male gaze. The murder-mystery involving a teacher (Meg Ryan) whose sexuality is reawakened by a police detective (Harvey Keitel) seemed to many critics at odds with Campion’s more austere style. Sometimes the result is glorious - Coppola’s adaptation of “The Godfather” being the gold standard, but more often than not, the filmmaker’s artistic sensibility clashes with the often crass demands of the genre, which is what occurred for many critics with Cameron’s work here. Starring: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kevin BaconĬampion’s “In the Cut” marks one of those cases where a film artist applies herself to trashy genre material. Writers: Jane Campion, Susannah Moore, based on Moore’s novel To celebrate the work of this distinguished writer/director, let’s raise a glass to Campion by counting down, from worst to best, the eight films from her ever-growing filmography. She took home the Oscar as Best Director for that Netflix movie. It is ironic then that Campion’s most-awarded film, 2021’s “The Power of the Dog,” focuses primarily on the damage that can be done by toxic masculinity. (That’s also a theme of Campion’s acclaimed 2013 TV miniseries “Top of the Lake.”) It’s only in the almost-chaste romance of “Bright Star” that Campion would appear to embrace traditional female roles, but even then Abbie Cornish’s Fanny has to take the lead in the romantic pursuit of poet John Keats. She explored female sexuality in “In the Cut,” “Holy Smoke!,” “Portrait of a Lady” and, most famously in “The Piano,” where Holly Hunter’s character Ada consents to an erotic affair with a frontiersman (Harvey Keitel) which allows her to fulfill her long-repressed sexual desires. Scroll down to see all eight Jane Campion movies ranked from worst to best. In 1989, she segued into feature film direction with “Sweetie,” the first of eight features that she would direct over the next 32 years. With a background in art, Campion soon came to realize that she could better express herself through the medium of film and created a series of short films, one of which, “Peel,” won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Jane Campion has always been a film artist who’s gone her own way.
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