Jane Campion was the first woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, for The Piano, and this year won Best Director at the Academy Awards for The Power of the Dog. In 40 years of work, she has carved out a unique place for herself in the traditionally masculine pantheon of cinema. A visual and iconoclastic director, a subtle portraitist of the human soul and women, Jane Campion is also a furtive filmmaker, at once discreet and whimsical, gentle and impertinent, and at times misunderstood. For the first time, filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli draws the portrait she deserves, in a film that is unapologetically subjective and offbeat, very much mirroring Jane’s own trailblazing journey in cinema and life.
Jane is the director for whom I have the most admiration and with whom I feel a genuine connection. Her films have transported and liberated me; they resonate deep within me. They’ve given me the confidence and inspiration to continue making films. These 40 years of a woman’s life will be marked by the exceptional career of a major filmmaker, an explorer, an inventor of forms, an indefatigable curious person, who has imprinted the history of cinema with her unique imagination, and who today marks the younqer generations with her lastinq influence.

 Julie Bertuccelli