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Article: What Jane Campion did next

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September 22, 1996
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Campion is our greatest living woman film director. (But then, in all honesty, how many others spring to mind right now?) And it is an opinion whispered in some circles, after the astonishingly precocious achievements of An Angel at My Table (1990) and The Piano (1993) - the New Zealand director's second and third features - that Jane Campion might be turning into our greatest living director, full stop.

Campion's reputation, like that of an earlier Jane, rests on a slim body of work. Her juvenilia - one made-for-television movie (Two Friends), and a handful of inspired, wayward shorts - are as eagerly sought out by Campion junkies as Lady ...

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