An Angel at My Table
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New Zealand writer Janet Frame survives a impoverished childhood, the drowning deaths of two sisters, and eight years in a mental institution to emerge as one of her country's great literary voices.
Why watch: Originally a three-part TV miniseries, then re-edited for 35mm. The first New Zealand film screened at Venice.
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Cast
Kerry Fox as Janet Frame
Alexia Keogh as Janet Frame as a child
Karen Fergusson as Janet Frame as a teenager
Iris Churn as Mother
Jessie Mune as Janet Frame as a baby
Kevin J. Wilson as Father
Edith Campion as Miss Lindsay
Francesca Collins as Baby Jane
Melina Bernecker as Myrtle
Mark Morrison as Bruddie Frame as child
Katherine Murray-Cowper as Young Isabel
Mark Thomson as Billy Delaware
Brenda Kendall as Miss Botting
Paul Moffat as Dis McIvor
Blair Hutchison as Bully Boy
Crew
Jane Campion — Director
Laura Jones — Screenplay
Bridget Ikin — Producer
John Maynard — Co-Producer
Diana Rowan — Casting
Stuart Dryburgh — Director of Photography
Veronika Jenet — Editor
Grant Major — Production Design
Glenys Jackson — Costume Design
Don McGlashan — Original Music Composer
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