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An Angel at My Table
The film tell a true-life story about Janet Frame who is the most excellent author in New Zealand. She must undergo poverty-stricken childhood, terrible time in a mental institution and then she finds the way to escape. Ultimately, She passes through difficult challenges to win fame in the world.
20 August 1932, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
24 February 1938, Granity, New Zealand
26 June 1949
September 29, 2005
radiantly beautiful filmmaking
February 24, 2011
Engaging biopic of the shy and introverted New Zealand writer/poet Janet Frame.
September 23, 2005
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.
July 12, 2003
A spiritually uplifting portrait of New Zealand poet and novelist Janet Frame.
August 14, 2009
Anyone who can make a more than 2.5-hour biopic about a New Zealand writer feel as quick and fleet as this is clearly doing something extremely right.
April 07, 2010
An Angel at My Table is, like many of Campion's films, a tale of the indomitability of the human spirit.
