Hunter, Dryburgh and Nyman Perfect Campion's Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2004)

While the over-stylization may make some audience forget that the film is about the silence and the violence that women have had to suffer, Jane Campion orchestrates Holly Hunter's acting, Stuart Dryburgh's filming, and Michael Nyman's scoring (whose post-minimalism style is absolutely impossible to have existed in the 19th century, but who cares) so incredibly, so perfectly and so beautifully that everything else becomes irrelevant.
The only defect I want to point out is the brief cartoon, which appears when Hunter's daughter invents the family history. It doesn't fit into the film at all.