2 Friends
Women's Work: Essential Films by Female Filmmakers
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1h 15m
Leaving December 1
Directed by Jane Campion | 76 mins | 1986
A formally daring inquest into a fractured friendship from Campion with a screenplay by novelist Helen Garner, 2 Friends opens with once-inseparable teenage girlfriends who having drifted apart, then moves back through the years to observe the episodes that caused the rift to open between them.
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