Article: Jane's addiction: in Jane Campion's shocking new film, In the Cut, the battle of the sexes becomes deadly.(Eye)

Jane Campion is hardly averse to violence. After all, she's the director who delivered the indelible image of Sam Neill wielding an ax over a terrified Holly Hunter in The Piano, and gave us the psychological torture inflicted on Nicole Kidman's Isabel Archer by John Malkovich in The Portrait of a Lady. Both pale, however, next to the brutality in her controversial new film, an adaptation of Susanna Moore's harrowing best-seller, In the Cut.

"It took me to a very dark place I couldn't imagine going to in a film," says Campion, preparing coffee in a light-filled Victorian apartment, her working headquarters in the hip Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst. But the path to ...

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