An Angel at my Table
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| Directed by | Jane Campion |
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Grant Major Bridget Ikin |
| Written by | Laura Jones |
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To the Is-Land & An Angel at My Table & The Envoy from Mirror City by Janet Frame |
| Starring | Kerry Fox |
| Music by | Don McGlashan |
| Cinematography | Stuart Dryburgh |
| Edited by | Veronika Jenet |
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| Distributed by | Sharmill Films (Australia) Fine Line Features (US) Artificial Eye (UK) Alliance Films (Canada) |
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158 minutes |
| Country | Australia New Zealand United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,054,638 (US and Canada) |
An Angel at My Table is a 1990 New Zealand-Australian-British film directed by Jane Campion. The film is based on Janet Frame's three autobiographies, To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1984). The film was very well received, winning multiple awards including at the New Zealand Film and Television awards, the Toronto International Film Festival and received second prize at the Venice Film Festival.
An Angel at My Table is a dramatisation of the autobiographies of New Zealand author Janet Frame. Originally produced as a television mini-series, the film, as with Frame's autobiographies, is divided into three sections, with the lead role played by three actresses who portray Frame at different stages of her life: Karen Fergusson (child), Alexia Keogh (adolescent), and Kerry Fox (adult). The film follows Frame from when she grows up in a poor family, through her years in a mental institution, and into her writing years after her escape.
An Angel at My Table was the first film from New Zealand to be screened at the Venice Film Festival, where it received multiple standing ovations and was awarded the Grand Special Jury Prize despite evoking yells of protest that it did not win The Golden Lion. In addition to virtually sweeping the local New Zealand film awards, it also took home the prize for best foreign film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the International Critics' Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film not only established Jane Campion as an emerging director and launched the career of Kerry Fox, but it also introduced a broader audience to Janet Frame's writing.
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