
Based solely on a tea leaf reading, superstitious and introspective Kay believes she and Louis are destined to fall in love with each other, he who she is able to convince of the same despite he just having gotten engaged to her co-worker, Cheryl. That destiny may change with the fortunes of what she sees as the next symbol of their relationship, a somewhat sickly elder tree Louis plants in their garden for their one year anniversary. Their relationship is placed under a stra... (Full plot summary below)
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Based solely on a tea leaf reading, superstitious and introspective Kay believes she and Louis are destined to fall in love with each other, he who she is able to convince of the same despite he just having gotten engaged to her co-worker, Cheryl. That destiny may change with the fortunes of what she sees as the next symbol of their relationship, a somewhat sickly elder tree Louis plants in their garden for their one year anniversary. Their relationship is placed under a strain with the arrival of Kay's formerly institutionalized sister Dawn - nicknamed Sweetie - and Sweetie's current boyfriend, Bob, who Sweetie believes will help her get into show business. Kay's pleas to her father Gordon to help get Sweetie out of her house go largely ignored, as he has never judged Sweetie, who he still sees as his performing loving little girl. Gordon is facing his own issues as Kay and Sweetie's mother, Flo, has just left him on a trial separation, their issues largely stemming from his protecting Sweetie at all cost, Sweetie who had most recently been living with them.
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| Portland OregonianMick LaSalleAn acutely defined, starkly realized and profoundly unsettling debut if ever there was one. |
| Slant MagazineGlenn Heath Jr.Sweetie’s brilliance stems from how Campion inventively explores the relationship between inanimate objects and personal memory, Sally Bongers’s static camera lingering on the precipice of a family unit brimming with secrets and lies. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe acting style edges toward parody, the material is unforgiving of Australian middle-class life in the boondocks and then, pow! - Sweetie waltzes onto the screen. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...a highly visual domestic horror film, a sui generis experience |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyJane Camion's stunning feature debut is a bold and audacious dark comedy about sexual politics and dysfunctional family relations. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrCruelly honest and pitilessly funny, Sweetie is one of the nakedest explorations of familial love and desperation ever filmed. |
| The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonCampion's merciless staging forces a more intimate relationship between viewers and characters; it's hard to take a detached stance when she's smearing raw emotions all over the screen. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbySweetie looks like a small movie, and in every measurable way it is, but it possesses remarkable strength and tenacity. |
| The GuardianLuke BuckmasterCampion offsets what could have been a morose drama with an atmosphere that becomes increasingly, and unnervingly, mystical. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonThis Australian film by New Zealand director Jane Campion comes at you, and keeps coming at you, in peculiar, oddly enchanting bursts of detail. |