Writer/Producer: Jane Campion

Get swept away by Jane Campion’s sublime moody masterpiece of passion and sensuality. This stunning petticoat drama is a miraculous achievement of visual, performative, aural, and romantic perfection and led Campion to be the first woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is revelatory in her Oscar-winning performance as a mute Scottish woman thrown into the New Zealand wilderness with her daughter (Anna Paquin who also won an Oscar) and her beloved piano – her one source of expression and communication. Pitted against a controlling husband in an arranged marriage, she begins to find comfort with a Maori frontiersman and an erotic tension builds to a fever pitch. Stuart Dryburgh’s breathtaking cinematography of the New Zealand coastline and Michael Nyman’s sweeping score add to the sensory sensuality of this cinematic treasure.

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