Sweetie (DVD)

Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion will always be remembered for her stunning debut feature, "Sweetie," which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, Sweetie—and on their family's profoundly rotten roots. A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, the tough and tender "Sweetie" heralded the emergence of this gifted director, as well as a renaissance of Australian cinema, which would take the film world by storm in the nineties.