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Jane Campion On Her Failed Plans To Retire, Being An “Auntie” To Young Filmmakers & The Success Of ‘Barbie’: “Women Can Finally Be Trusted With Money” — Locarno
Campion was in Locarno to receive a lifetime achievement award.
Jane Campion thought she had finished making films when she completed the Oscar-winning Power of the Dog; she was fixed on the next thing, which was to run a pop-up school for aspiring filmmakers in her native New Zealand. Her adaptation of Portrait of a Lady(1996) – possibly her own favorite among her films – was critically mauled partly because she cast Nicole Kidman as Henry James’s heroine Isabel Archer. Outside Australia, Kidman was seen solely as Tom Cruise’s wife, “a kind of handbag role, so she shouldn’t be playing a classical heroine, especially an American,” Campion said of the time.
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