
In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she stays at a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she starts to write novels.... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she stays at a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she starts to write novels.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt tells its story calmly and with great attention to human detail and, watching it, I found myself drawn in with a rare intensity. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrThis is filmmaking at the very peak of the medium`s potential. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonA big, sprawling, unshapely thing, insufferably verbose and, at the same time, touched with magnificence. |
| EmpireDavid ParkinsonCampion's grasp of her material is intellectually and emotionally assured, while Fox's extraordinary performance demonstrates an honesty, courage and power that's rarely attempted, let alone achieved. |
| The Hollywood ReporterHenry SheehanFrame's story is told with an intriguingly naked honesty but one that never drags the viewer into emotional prurience. It creates a fascinating portrait. |
| Slant MagazineJake ColeJane Campion upends staid genre convention with an impressionistic approach to character. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrA great compliment to Campion is that the movie never seems less than genuine; it’s consciously anti-commercial. And when “An Angel at My Table” does steer toward a happy ending (this is a film about self-discovery and triumph, after all), even then it strives for gentle epiphany. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanTold in Campion’s fancifully fractured style, An Angel at My Table is very accomplished, but it’s also an epic act of perversity: a 2-hour-and-38-minute movie about a wallflower. |
| Washington PostJeanne CooperFor Americans, the measured accumulation of detail can be frustrating. It's like listening to a story about someone you barely know and being forced to prompt the teller, "And then? And then?" |