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Jane Campion

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporar

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Jane Campion expresses feeling a certain sadness when working on films set in past times because she personally lacks experience with those historical periods. To cope with this, she reminds herself that every film, regardless of when it is set, shares common elements that connect it to the present.

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