Let’s Talk About Sex

“Jane Campion has made an incredibly sexy movie, and she knows it.” Further cinematic exploration along the edge of the erotic, In the Cut debuted at September’s Toronto Film Festival, stirring up as much praise as it did controversy. While some critics focussed on the film’s explicit sex scenes and Meg Ryan‘s against-type casting, others lauded it. Guardian finds Campion working in a genre of her own devising: “a thrilling return to form, [Campion’s] best film since The Piano … [Its] visual design and sexy gutsiness mess with the thriller formula, denying the audience the predictable narrative arc and familiar props in favour of a retuned world that is, well, Campionesque.” In The Observer Campion is interviewed about sex, repression, getting older and women in film: “Campion, too, is a pretty sexy dame. At 49, she is, she says, “a big advocate of all things female”. “I love women and I love being a woman, and I think it gets even better as you get older. I don’t think you know what you are when you’re younger. Getting older, I do know why it’s unique, why men love it, and I’m friends with that quality.”