Sweetie (Criterion Collection)

Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion (THE PIANO, BRIGHT STAR) will always be remembered for her knockout debut feature, SWEETIE, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, Sweetie and on their family's profoundly rotten roots. A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, SWEETIE heralded the emergence of this gifted director, as well as a renaissance of Australian cinema, which would take the film world by storm in the nineties.