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Angel Mine

1978 Film
  • Drama
  • Experimental
  • Fantasy
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About

"I like to pull rabbits out of hats to surprise people". So said young director David Blyth, before unleashing Angel Mine. Inspired partly by the surrealism of Luis Buñuel, Blyth's inventive debut is one of a handful of Kiwi experimental feature films to win mainstream release. Featuring a whitebread suburban couple and their liberated alter egos, the film explores ideas of consumerism, sexuality, the media, and taboo-breaking. The film excited criticism from Patricia Bartlett, and a notorious addition to its R18 certificate: "contains punk cult material."

Key Cast & Crew

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Liz Mitchell
Costumes
JR
Jennifer Redford
As: The Woman
DW
Derek Ward
As: The Man
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John Earnshaw
Cinematographer

Related images

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Jennifer Redford and Derek Ward in a scene from Angel Mine.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
Angel-Mine-Gallery-1.jpg
Jennifer Redford and Derek Ward in a scene from Angel Mine.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.