An Angel at My Table

Name: An Angel at My Table
Genre: Biography, Drama, Classic
Released: 1990
Duration: 158 min
Cast: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn, Jessie Mune

Jane Campion19902h 38mBiography, Drama, Classic

Why we chose it

Janet Frame was a step away from a lobotomy when word came that her first collection of stories had won a prize, so the operation was called off and she was let out of hospital. Jane Campion turned her life into a painterly, intimate film that became a breakthrough and won at Venice.

Synopsis

In a small town in the south of New Zealand, shy Janet keeps to herself and is forever writing something down. When her sister Myrtle dies, she has no name for the grief that follows, and after she tries to take her own life, a doctor finds one for her. A single word goes into her file: schizophrenia.