An Exercise in Discipline: Peel

Winner of the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, Peel follows a father's vexed efforts to discipline his son for throwing orange peel out the window on a summertime car-trip. Expressing the repetitive nature of their argument with a circular narrative structure and rhythmic editing and sound, Jane Campion's stylistic ingenuity and dreamlike atmosphere is on full display in this early short.