An Angel at My Table R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 20, 2005
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kerry Fox & Alexia Keogh | |
Performer: | Karen Fergusson & Iris Churn | |
Directed by | Jane Campion | |
Edited by | Veronika Jenet | |
Screenplay by | Laura Jones | |
Composition by | Don McGlashan | |
Director of Photography: | Stuart Dryburgh |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
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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Slant Magazine
...Touching....Beguiling...
Film Comment
Rating: 3/4 --
A celebration of the creative process and its ability to hone, heal, and save.
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Film Frenzy
Rating: 4.5/5 --
An Angel at My Table is, like many of Campion's films, a tale of the indomitability of the human spirit.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
A spiritually uplifting portrait of New Zealand poet and novelist Janet Frame.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: B+ --
Engaging biopic of the shy and introverted New Zealand writer/poet Janet Frame.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...Low-key and naturalistic....The film is like reading a diary....A great compliment to Campion is that the movie never seems less than genuine...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
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.
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 85,466
- UPC: 715515016124
- Shipping Weight: 0.36/lbs (approx)
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