An angel on my board

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Movie
German title An angel on my board
Original title An Angel at My Table
Country of production New Zealand , Australia , United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 158 minutes
Rod
Director Jane Campion
script Janet Frame
Laura Jones
production Grant Major
Bridget Ikin
music Don McGlashan
camera Stuart Dryburgh
cut Veronika Haeussler
occupation
  • Kerry Fox : Janet Frame
  • Alexia Keogh: Janet Frame (young people)
  • Karen Fergusson: Janet Frame (child)
  • Iris Churn: mother
  • Kevin J. Wilson : father
  • Melina Bernecker: Myrtle
  • Glynis Angell: Isabel
  • Sarah Llewellyn: June Frame (as a child)
  • Brenda Kendall: Miss Botting
  • Martyn Sanderson : Frank Sargeson

An Angel at My Table (original: An Angel at My Table ) is a New Zealand-Australian-British co-production from 1990 by the director Jane Campion . The film is a film adaptation of the autobiographies of the New Zealand writer Janet Frame . The film was originally shot as a television miniseries . Like Frame's autobiographies, the film is divided into three parts in which the author is embodied by three different actresses: Karen Fergusson as a child, Alexia Keogh as a teenager and Kerry Fox as an adult.

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Little Janet Frame grew up in a poor family in a large family. With her chubby appearance, the red curly hair and the shabby clothes, it is not easy for her, as she corresponds to everything but the ideal of beauty. Nevertheless, as a country girl, she was enthusiastic about literature and classical music and wrote her first poems as a child. As an outsider, she avoids crowds as much as possible and prefers to walk alone through nature, dreamily and poetically creative.

Her academic performance is so good that she receives a scholarship at the end of her schooling. Teaching is her dream job. Tragically, after graduation it turns out that she is unable to speak in front of a school class. Doctors want to help her in a psychiatric clinic. Her martyrdom will last there for 8 years. She finds the treatment with electric shocks excruciating. She only escapes a lobotomy because her previously published short stories were honored with an award.

After her release, she devotes herself intensively to her true destiny, writing. She travels alone through Europe and even gets to know love as a young woman. However, the liaison only lasts one summer, which affects them hard. With thoughts of suicide and still believing she was suffering from schizophrenia , she voluntarily placed herself in the hands of a psychiatrist. He cannot confirm the earlier diagnosis of schizophrenia, but offers her weekly therapy sessions .

Awards

Influence and reception

The film was the first New Zealand film to be shown at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Grand Prize. He garnered most of New Zealand's film awards, made Jane Campion known as a director, and was the beginning of Kerry Fox's career. The film also made the work of Janet Frame better known.

Roger Ebert gave the film 4 out of 4 stars: "[The film] tells its story calmly and with great attention to human detail and, watching it, I found myself drawn in with a rare intensity".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ebert, Roger: An Angel at My Table . Chicago Sun-Times . June 21, 1991. Retrieved February 3, 2010.