Directed by:
Jane CampionScreenplay:
Laura JonesCinematography:
Stuart DryburghComposer:
Don McGlashanCast:
Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Brenda Kendall, Willa O'Neill, Alison Bruce, Edith Campion, Martyn Sanderson, Kevin J. Wilson, Peter Needham (more)VOD (3)
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With An Angel at My Table, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Jane Campion brought to the screen the harrowing autobiography of Janet Frame, New Zealand’s most distinguished author. Three actors in turn take on the lead role (including Kerry Fox in a marvelous performance as the adult Frame), as the film describes a journey from an impoverished childhood marked by tragedy to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia resulting in electroshock therapy and a narrowly escaped lobotomy to, finally, international literary fame. Unobtrusively capturing the beauty and power of the New Zealand landscape while maintaining the film’s focus on the figure at its center, Campion broke new ground for female filmmakers everywhere and earned a sweep of her country’s film awards, along with the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Kerry Fox
New Zealand
Best movies:
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Shallow Grave (1994)
Alexia Keogh
Best movies:
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Karen Fergusson
Best movies:
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Brenda Kendall
Best movies:
Dead Alive (1992)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014) (series)
Willa O'Neill
New Zealand
Best movies:
Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (1997)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
The Price of Milk (2000)
Alison Bruce
New Zealand
Best movies:
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014) (series)
Edith Campion
New Zealand
Best movies:
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Martyn Sanderson
New Zealand
Best movies:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
My Brother Tom (1986) (TV movie)
Brotherhood of the Rose (1989) (series)
Kevin J. Wilson
New Zealand
Best movies:
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004) (TV movie)
Blood Crime (2002) (TV movie)
Peter Needham
UK
Best movies:
Before the Rain (1994)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
The Line of Beauty (2006) (series)
David McKenzie
Best movies:
An Angel at My Table (1990)
David Letch
Best movies:
Anzacs (1985) (series)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Dark of the Night (1984)
Gerald Bryan
Best movies:
An Angel at My Table (1990)
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Brian Flegg
Best movies:
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Best movies:
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Oyster Farmer (2004)
Paul Norell
UK
Best movies:
Michael Harry
Best movies:
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Yes, Madam (1985)
Andrew Robertt
Best movies:
Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (1997)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004) (TV movie)