VENICE, Sept 3 — Acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion, back on the big screen after a 12-year hiatus, praised fellow female film-makers for a string of top awards over the past year, saying the #MeToo movement was like “the end of apartheid” for women.at the Venice festival on Thursday, pointed to colleagues Chloe Zhao — whosewon the top prize in Venice last year and went on to fetch three Oscars — and this year’s Cannes winner Julia Ducournau.
Campion, 67, picked a tale of machismo and revenge set in 1925 Montana and based on a novel by Thomas Savage for her first film since, a 2009 biographical drama about poet John Keats, and several years spent working on a TV series., shot entirely in Campion’s native New Zealand, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank, a cruel, twisted ranch owner who sets out to torment Rose, the new wife of his brother, together with her bookish son.
He said that while shooting he had completely immersed himself in his character. He and Dunst — whose role is amplified in the film compared to the book — barely greeted each other on set to keep with the tense, antagonistic atmosphere that pervades the movie.
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