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Article: 'Holy Smoke.'.(book by Jane and Anna Campion)
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- May 1, 1999
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Jane and Anna Campion - sisters, directors, and soon-to-be published authors - have cowritten their irreverent first novel, Holy Smoke, a wickedly funny look at the seductive power of cults. Here, an excerpt from the can-do Campions' book, already a movie-in-the-making
In recent years, guru-led cults have become a pop-psych cliche and a staple of bad made-for-TV movies, but the subject, timelier than ever with the new millennium approaching, warrants a fresh look. This is exactly what New Zealand-born writer-directors and sisters Jane Campion (The Piano, 1993) and Anna Campion (Loaded, 1994) deliver in their first novel, Holy Smoke, a cheeky, erotic subversion of ...