Jane Campion thought she had finished making films when she completed the Oscar-winning Power of the Dog; she was fixed on the next thing, which was to run a pop-up school for aspiring filmmakers in her native New Zealand. “It was such a thrill to have a late-career success and to feel that at the end of it that I could do anything I wanted – and the idea of giving back was really fun,” she said yesterday at the Locarno Film Festival. “Then I just wanted to do more yoga, but that didn’t really happen, even though I had the time.
And now I’ve noticed some more ideas coming up. Really surprising ones I can’t really share yet. I think I’m in a good place, to be honest.
I think I’m very lucky because I know there will be money for me. People in the industry believe, maybe wrongly, that there will be another really good film.
I certainly will be trying.” Campion, 70, is in Locarno to receive a lifetime achievement award, having started directing short films in the early ‘80s as a woman in an almost completely male-dominated field.
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