Jane Campion and 'the secret world of motherhood'
by By Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times
Sep 12, 2017
4 minutes
NEW YORK _ Jane Campion knows as well as anyone the desperate longing to become a mother _ as she puts it, the "battlefield of dashed hopes and dreams" _ presented by infertility.
As her career was flying high in the early 1990s, the filmmaker suffered a series of miscarriages. Her haunting period piece "The Piano," about a deaf-mute woman in 19th century New Zealand, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1993, becoming the first film directed by a woman to do so. Shortly afterward, she gave birth to a son, Jasper, who died 11 days later.
"I thought it was going to kill me," Campion, 63, recalled recently,
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