An Angel at My Table

MOVIE #1,846 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.24.24 Part of the Jane Campion • Director Focus series I've mentioned this a lot lately, but I am at a crossroads with this movie review project/website. Looking at the run times of today's pictures — all north of two hours (this at 2:40, Welfare at 2:47 and Mo’ Better Blues at 2:07) — I really felt like throwing in the towel. I've seemingly bit off more than I could chew and yet I persist. And, more importantly, I need to stop bitching about this! These decades-spanning biopics are typically a hard sell for me. But it's clear this is a good one and I'd like to revisit it when I'm more in the mood. (I say this knowing full well that such a mood is rare to strike me, if ever… I digress.) I felt like how these girls look while watching it and that’s not the movie’s fault…

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An Angel at My Table is a 1990 biographical drama film directed by Jane Campion. The film is based on Janet Frame's three autobiographies, To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1984). The film was very well received. It won awards at the New Zealand Film and Television awards, the Toronto International Film Festival, and second prize at the Venice Film Festival. It was released on September 5, 1990.