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An Angel at My Table

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An Angel at My Table (1991)

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Reviews Counted: 10 Fresh: 9  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.4/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 40 mins

Synopsis: This sprawling, detailed film by Jane Campion (THE PIANO) tells the true story of Janet Frame, a painfully sensitive girl who managed to escape a dreary rural upbringing and eight years in a mental hospital to become New Zealand's premier poet. The film unfolds as a trilogy, with each section... This sprawling, detailed film by Jane Campion (THE PIANO) tells the true story of Janet Frame, a painfully sensitive girl who managed to escape a dreary rural upbringing and eight years in a mental hospital to become New Zealand's premier poet. The film unfolds as a trilogy, with each section based on a different Frame autobiography. "To the Is-Land" chronicles her childhood and awkward teenage years. "An Angel at My Table" focuses on her time as a teacher and her horrifying mental institution experience. "The Envoy from Mirror City" finds Frame an emerging, critically lauded writer traveling on a grant in Europe and finding love for the first time. Kerry Fox, as the adult Frame, is astonishing. She transmits painfully self-aware shyness until it rubs off on the viewer. Campion expertly captures the details of Frame's time and place, creating a brutal, impersonal world by turns unremittingly dreary and starkly beautiful. Stunning, exhausting, brilliant, this acclaimed film debuted on New Zealand TV as a miniseries and was later edited for feature-length release internationally. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn

Director: Jane Campion

DVD Info

Release:

Sep 20, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 1.77

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Jane Campion - Director/Stuart Dryburgh
  • Audio Interview - 1. Janet Frame (1983)
  • Making-Of
  • Trailer - 1. Theatrical Trailer

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Essay By Film Critic Amy Taubin
  • Excerpts From Janet Frame's Autobiography Which Formed The Basis Of The Film

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radiantly beautiful filmmaking

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09/29/05
Chris Cabin
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Campion's knack for solitary yet paradoxically epic scope nibbles off Laura Jones's bite-sized scene-sketches of loneliness and makes entire meals of them.

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A spiritually uplifting portrait of New Zealand poet and novelist Janet Frame.

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Vincent Canby
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