First collaboration between director Dame Jane Campion and Nicole Kidman. However, it was Campion who discovered Kidman, where she, at the age of fourteen, was performing at Australian Theater for Young People and subsequently caught the eye of Campion.
Nicole Kidman spent two weeks in bed after filming wrapped, diagnosed as suffering from "emotional stress".
The opening theme of this movie came to Composer Wojciech Kilar when he was flying back to Poland from a meeting with Director Dame Jane Campion. Lacking manuscript paper, he scribbled it on his boarding pass.
Nicole Kidman originally read the book at a young age in primary school and admittedly felt she didn't understand it. She re-read it at the age of twenty-one and fell in love with it.