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Two Friends (stylized as 2 Friends) is a 1986 Australian television drama film directed by Jane Campion. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. The film is Campion’s first feature as a director.
Nov 21, 1987 · 2 Friends: Directed by Jane Campion. With Kris Bidenko, Emma Coles, Kris McQuade, Peter Hehir. The evolving relationship of two teenage girls in Sydney backwards through time, from estrangement to the height of their friendship a year earlier.
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- Drama
- Jane Campion
- 1987-11-21
Two girls at 15: Louise, in a prestigious girls’ high school, and Kelly, who was admitted but forbidden by her father to attend. This is the end of their friendship, and from here the film progresses backwards in time…
The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course of nine months.
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- Jane Campion
Jane Campion's story of teenage friendship dissects the unraveling of a bond between two young girls, Louise (Emma Coles) and Kelly (Kris Bidenko). Starting in the present and moving backward,...
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- Emma Coles
- Jane Campion
- Drama
This ambitious TV movie by Jane Campion was heralded at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival as the arrival of a major new filmmaking voice. TWO FRIENDS’s screenplay, by renowned Australian novelist Helen Garner, is articulate, assured, and enthralling.
July 1985. 15-year-old Louise's divorced parents, Janet and Jim, are attending the wake of a teenage girl who has overdosed on drugs. Jim worries about their own daughter, but Janet reassures him that Louise is "all right." Jim asks if Louise's friend Kelly, "the sexy one," is also okay.
