Reception
From the beginning of her career Campion's work has received high praise from critics all around. In V.W. Wexman's Jane Campion: Interviews, critic David Thomson describes Campion, "as one of the best young directors in the world today." Similarly, in Sue Gillett's "More Than Meets The Eye: The Mediation of Affects in Jane Campion's Sweetie," Campion's work is described as, "perhaps the fullest and truest way of being faithful to the reality of experiences," by utilizing the "unsayable" and "unseeable" she manages to catalyze audience speculation. Campion's films tend to gravitate around gender politics, such as seduction and female sexual power. This frequent theme has lead some to label Campion's body of work as feminist, however, Rebecca Flint Marx argues, "while not inaccurate, fails to fully capture the dilemmas of her characters and the depth of her work."
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