Starting tomorrow, The Film Society of Lincoln Center will honor Jane Campion with a retrospective, “Jane Campion’s Own Stories,” including an evening with the filmmaker herself. This is just one more accolade in the Academy Award and Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker’s estimable career, as she has spent decades in the male-dominated world of cinema creating profound work by and about women. According to the press release from FSLC:

“Campion makes films that reflect a highly personal and idiosyncratic style, influenced by her background in anthropology and painting, and notable for their visual inventiveness, dark sense of humor, and complex depictions of women and sexuality.

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