On arte.tv until May 16, Jane Campion – La Femme Cinéma immerses us in the career, but also the intimacy, of the first woman to have received a Palme d’Or. An unmissable documentary, punctuated by fascinating excerpts. See for yourself.
Jane Campion, the Cinema Woman is available on arte.tv until May 16.
After Paul Verhoeven, Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Ryan Gosling and Agnès Varda, ARTE persists and signs a new documentary that should delight film lovers. And for good reason, director Julie Bertuccelli brilliantly took up the challenge of designing a portrait of her colleague Jane Campion.
THE EXCITING PORTRAIT OF JANE CAMPION
Grandiose filmmaker, first, and for a long time alone, woman to have received the Palme d’Or (it was in 1993, for The Piano Lesson, before the coronation of Julia Ducournau no less than 28 years later with Titane), the Neo -Zélandaise reveals herself through archives of interviews and excerpts from her films.
From there, the eye of Julie Bertuccelli succeeds in making us take the measure of all the power of Jane Campion and her cinema, but also of her unfailing naturalness and her unparalleled skill in having succeeded in imposing herself in a landscape overinvested by men.
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At the turn of significant moments in her life, from the 50th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, during which she became aware of being the one and only woman rewarded, to more intimate moments – in particular the drama of the loss of her child after the Palme d ‘or -, we discover a delightful excerpt from Jane Campion during the Oscars.
On stage, she comes back with acidity, but not without humor, on the history of women in the ceremony which had then rewarded as director only Kathryn Bigelow (for Minesweepers, in 2010).
“It’s a very short story, even a haiku: five nominations, one winner !”, she says, before taking stock of what is on the male side by counting on her fingers for a long time. And to conclude:350 nominations, 70 Oscars!” An inventory that says a lot about the profession, but also and above all about Jane Campion’s freedom of tone and her unparalleled talent.