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Mood:
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- ProdigyWriter's LifeArtists and ShowbizHopesMind and SoulMisfitHuman SpiritPsychological more...
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Genres:
- Drama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century80s
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- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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- Strong Female Presence
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An Angel at My Table, 1990
English, Spanish
UK, Australia, New Zealand
Profile of An Angel at My Table
An Angel at My Table can be described as uplifting, contemplative, and sincere. The plot revolves around a prodigy, the life of a writer, and misfits. The main genre is drama. In terms of style, An Angel at My Table stars a strong female character. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place in the 1980s. An Angel at My Table is drawn from a biography, originally a true story, and based on a book. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves sexual content and profanity.
Summary of An Angel at My Table
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: | 4 October 1990 |
| Runtime: | 158 min |
Cast and Crew
as Janet Frame
as Janet Frame as adolescent
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Users Reviews
- 12.August.2008
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- by: ani
- ani rated this movie
8/10Great
