An Angel at My Table, directed by Jane Campion, is a film about Janet Frame, renowned author of NZ literary taonga. Based on Frame's three-part autobiography, it threads together a series of images and scenes evoking and telling Frame's dramatic life story. Originally made as a television drama, the acclaimed and richly-visual film established Jane Campion as an international director, launched the career of actress Kerry Fox, and introduced a broader audience to the "mirror city" of Frame's writing.
Included in the Janet Frame Collection - Jan 2010
An Angel at My Table (1990) saw Jane Campion direct an adaptation of the three volumes of Janet Frame's autobiography (To the ...
literature, writer, poetry, award-winning, janet frame, mental illness