Already a sought-after cinematographer in her own right, Cordelia Beresford no doubt acquired from her filmmaker father, Bruce Beresford, a sense of how a competent director has to know everything about the technicalities of the job. But her own directing work reveals qualities that are uniquely hers, including a startling ability to direct her players to transmit emotion through movement, and then a truly unsettling gift to put the resulting action into a framework of unremitting intensity. As a result, she can fill a few minutes with hours and years of psychological action.