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- 1989
- R
- Avenue Pictures Productions
- 1 h 37 m
- 1989
- R
- Avenue Pictures Productions
- 1 h 37 m
Summary An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.
Directed By: Jane Campion
Written By: Gerard Lee, Jane Campion
- 1989
- R
- Avenue Pictures Productions
- 1 h 37 m
- 1989
- R
- Avenue Pictures Productions
- 1 h 37 m
Sweetie
7.2
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Summary An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.
Directed By: Jane Campion
Written By: Gerard Lee, Jane Campion
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
81
89% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
11% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Until its final moments, Sweetie maintains a precarious and sublime balance between comedy and tragedy. The script - ably handled by a splendid ensemble cast - is generously spiced with wry and illuminating moments and is uncannily accurate in its portrait of a volatile dysfunctional family. [02 Mar 1990, p.22]
An acutely defined, starkly realized and profoundly unsettling debut if ever there was one.
Sweetie’s brilliance stems from how Campion inventively explores the relationship between inanimate objects and personal memory, Sally Bongers’s static camera lingering on the precipice of a family unit brimming with secrets and lies.
In making her first film, Campion has done thrillingly atmospheric work, and in the process, established herself as perhaps the most perversely gifted young filmmaker to rise up in years.
This Australian film by New Zealand director Jane Campion comes at you, and keeps coming at you, in peculiar, oddly enchanting bursts of detail.
Sweetie is imaginatively filmed, but it's sadly mean-spirited, too. For all its cleverness, it left a mighty sour taste in my mouth. [29 Jan 1990, p.11]
User Score
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Awards
Australian Film Institute
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
