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The very last time I met Janet was when we were shooting the film. John Maynard and Bridget Ikin, the producers, invited her to Auckland to visit our set. She travelled up from Levin with my godmother Marga, to whom I had given a small part in the film.

On our set Janet found a chair against the wall of the studio. She watched our work and me, and I watched her, grateful for her tact and the permission she gave me simply to do my best. She wanted no control; she hardly ever commented or asked for changes, not then or through the long process of the adaptation by Laura Jones. Over the course of the week Janet moved closer and closer until on the Friday, the last day of her stay, she was sitting on the couch of the film-set Frame family house in Oamaru. The pink pages of the call sheet in her hand had all the new words from our world: ‘wrap time’, ‘call time’, ‘standby props’, and ‘mag change’. She enunciated these words slowly, as if she was tasting something new and curious. 

Hanna Schygulla

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - The Merchant of Four Seasons

Italiensk for begyndere (2000) dir. Lone Scherfig

- What do you want (for christmas)?

Amy Irving in Crossing Delancey (1988)

Direction: Joan Micklin Silver