Before Sweetie made her internationally known, New Zealand-born Jane Campion already had made films about the small, the quirky, the embarrassing, the true: inventive films in which people are so human, they're strange. In Peel, a family sets out for a day in the country, but this isn't France and she's not Renoir. Her brood of obstreperous redheads turns the idyll into "an intrigue of awesome belligerence" (JC). Passionless Moments is a study in understatement. Ten episodes in ten minutes are devoted to those worthless turns the mind takes when we're alone, or think we are. Non-moments related as slice-of-life build to a comedy of recognition. In A Girl's Own Story close-ups that loom large and angles that stab magnify the hazards of being a teenager in the sixties. It tells of two Beatlemaniacs and a third whose little sexual games with her brother leave her in big trouble.