The doctor suspects that Pauline is homosexual and considers this a cause of her increasing anger at her mother as well as her dramatic weight loss. Juliet's father blames the intensity of the relationship on Pauline and speaks to her parents, who take her to a doctor. After four months, Juliet is released from the clinic and their relationship intensifies. For both of them, their fantasy life becomes a useful escape when under stress in the real world, and the two engage in increasingly violent, even murderous, fantasies about people who oppress them. During this time Pauline begins a sexual relationship with a lodger, which makes Juliet jealous. Pauline is desolate without her, and the two begin an intense correspondence, writing not only as themselves, but in the roles of the royal couple of Borovnia. Juliet is diagnosed with tuberculosis and is sent to a clinic. This is presented as a shared spiritual vision, a confirmation of their "Fourth World" belief, that influences the girls' predominant reality and affects their perception of events in the everyday world. She asks Pauline to come with her, and the world that Juliet sees also becomes visible to Pauline. Her fear of being left alone makes her hysterical, culminating in her first direct experience of the Fourth World, perceiving it as a land where all is beautiful and she is safe. Certain actors and musicians have the status of saints in this afterlife, such as singer Mario Lanza, with whom both girls are obsessed.ĭuring a day trip to Port Levy, Juliet's parents announce that they are going away and plan to leave Juliet behind. Juliet believes she will go there when she dies. Juliet introduces Pauline to the idea of "the Fourth World", a Heaven without Christians where music and art are celebrated.
Pauline spends most of her time at the Hulmes', where she feels accepted.
This angry atmosphere is in contrast to the peaceful intellectual life Juliet shares with her family. Pauline's relationship with her mother Honora becomes increasingly hostile and the two fight constantly. Over time it begins to be as real to them as the real world. It is the setting of the adventure novels they write together, which they hope to have published and eventually made into films in Hollywood. Together they paint, write stories, make plasticine figurines, and eventually create a fantasy kingdom called Borovnia. Pauline admires Juliet's outspoken arrogance and beauty.
They bond over a shared history of severe childhood disease and isolating hospitalizations, and over time develop an intense friendship. In 1952 Christchurch, an affluent 13-year-old English girl Juliet Hulme befriends a 14-year-old girl from a working-class family, Pauline Parker, when Juliet transfers to Pauline's school.
The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Reviewers praised most aspects of the production, with particular attention given to the performances by the previously unknown Winslet and Lynskey, as well as for Jackson's directing. The film opened in 1994 at the 51st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion and became one of the best-received films of the year. The events of the film span the period from their meeting in 1952 to the murder in 1954. Based on the notorious 1954 Parker–Hulme murder case in Christchurch, the film focuses on the relationship between two teenage girls-Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme-which culminates in the murder of Parker's mother. Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 New Zealand biographical psychological drama film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his partner, Fran Walsh, and starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in their feature film debuts, with supporting roles by Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, and Simon O'Connor.
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