David Lean 1955, Lean began to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios; in 1970, however, the critical failure of his film "Ryan's Daughter" led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking, during which he planned a number of film projects which never came to fruition. In 1984 he had a career revival with "A Passage to India", adapted from E. M. Forster's novel; it was an instant hit with critics but proved to be the last film Lean would direct. Lean's affinity for striking visuals and inventive editing techniques has led him to be lauded by directors
Judy Davis dual roles, a mother, Georgia, and her daughter Nina. For her performance, Davis earned another Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actress. In 1990, she had a cameo in Woody Allen's "Alice"; this would be her first appearance in an Allen-directed film. The following year, she was featured in Joel Coen's "Barton Fink", which won the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival and in David Cronenberg's adaptation of the hallucinogenic novel "Naked Lunch". She returned to E. M. Forster territory in "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and won an Independent Spirit Award for her work as mannish woman author