Jane Campion

Women and girls who refuse to be what they are told to be, in the landscapes of New Zealand and beyond. In The Piano, Ada, who cannot speak, is sent from Scotland with her daughter and her piano to an arranged marriage. Bright Star follows the romance between John Keats and Fanny Brawne in Hampstead. The Power of the Dog studies Phil Burbank, a cruel and charismatic Montana rancher, and was the film that made Campion the third woman to win the Oscar for Best Director.

Signature

• Female desire and silence (The Piano, Bright Star).
• Landscape as a force on character.
• Menace and repressed feeling (The Power of the Dog).
• First woman to win the Palme d'Or, for The Piano.