Sweetie

Sweetie (1989) is Jane Campion's Australian tragicomedy, and you can watch online on iFILM. This is the debut feature from the future director of The Piano — a jittery, off-kilter story about two sisters whose ordinary family surface hides rot underneath.

Kay is tense and superstitious; she's frightened of trees and puts her faith in fortune-tellers. When a psychic describes the man of her life, she pries another woman's fiancé away and tries to build something steady with Louis. Then Sweetie comes home — her wild, ungovernable sister, drug-addict boyfriend in tow. She moves into the spare room, and the family's fragile balance shatters.

Campion films a feeling rather than a plot: cramped, tilted frames, heavy silences, and humor pitched right at the edge of pain. The film screened in competition at Cannes and announced her style at once — cool, precise, merciless toward the myths families tell themselves. Best for arthouse viewers who aren't looking for comfort and can sit with uneasy emotions. Stream Sweetie online on iFILM.