An Angel at My Table is a 1990 New Zealand film directed by Jane Campion. It is a dramatisation of the autobiographies of New Zealand author Janet Frame. The film is divided into three sections, as Frame's autobiographies form a trilogy, and Frame is...
0ne of my colleagues at work refers to him always as "Adonis". The elderly vicar's wife in his home village has told me - several times - that she wishes I were dead and she were 40 years younger. At the time I found...
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE Directed by: Jane Campion Screenplay by: Laura Jones, based on Janet Frame's autobiographical trilogy Starring: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Ferguson, Iris Churn, K.J. Wilson Playing at: Nickelodeon, Harvard Square Rated: R...
In the following review, Kauffmann asserts that Campion "has moved forward healthily" with An Angel at My Table, eschewing the "precious camera work" of Sweetie to put "her (considerable) pictorial skill at the service of Janet Frame."
In the following review, McDonagh draws comparisons between An Angel at My Table and Campion's previous works, arguing that the director is kinder to her subject in the film under review.
In the following excerpt, Rafferty describes An Angel at My Table as a "perverse exercise in biographical filmmaking," faulting Campion for keeping viewers disoriented and withholding from them a sense of Frame's "inner life."
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