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An Angel at My Table , 1990

English, Spanish

UK, Australia, New Zealand

Rating:7.4
Plot

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.

Details
Language: English, Spanish
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand
Release date: 20 September 1990
Runtime: 158 min
Cast and Crew
Kerry Fox

as Janet Frame

Alexia Keogh

as Janet Frame as adolescent

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An Angel at My Table (1990)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
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The true story of a gifted but mentally unstable writer who is wrongly commited to a barbaric mental institution. Very sad but leaves room for some hope. It's a pity that in recent years this movie has been a bit forgotten. It's authentic and...

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