An Angel at My Table
With An Angel at My Table, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Jane Campion brought to the screen the harrowing autobiography of Janet Frame, New Zealand’s most distinguished author. Three actors in turn take on the lead role (including Kerry Fox in a marvelous performance as the adult Frame), as the film describes a journey from an impoverished childhood marked by tragedy to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia resulting in electroshock therapy and a narrowly escaped lobotomy to, finally, international literary fame. Unobtrusively capturing the beauty and power of the New Zealand landscape while maintaining the film’s focus on the figure at its center, Campion broke new ground for female filmmakers everywhere and earned a sweep of her country’s film awards, along with the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Stuart Dryburgh and approved by director Jane Campion, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring Campion, Dryburgh, and actor Kerry Fox
- Short documentary from 2002 about the making of the film
- Six deleted scenes
- Audio interview with author Janet Frame from 1983
- Trailer
- Stills gallery
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin and excerpts from Frame’s autobiography, on which Campion based her film
Cover by Eric Skillman
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Stuart Dryburgh and approved by director Jane Campion, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring Campion, Dryburgh, and actor Kerry Fox
- Short documentary from 2002 about the making of the film
- Six deleted scenes
- Audio interview with author Janet Frame from 1983
- Trailer
- Stills gallery
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin and excerpts from Frame’s autobiography, on which Campion based her film
Cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Kerry Fox
- Janet
- Alexia Keogh
- Young Janet
- Karen Fergusson
- Teenage Janet
- Iris Churn
- Mum
- K. J. Wilson
- Dad
Credits
- Director
- Jane Campion
- Based on the autobiographies of
- Janet Frame
- Producer
- Bridget Ikin
- Coproducer
- John Maynard
- Screenplay
- Laura Jones
- Director of photography
- Stuart Dryburgh
- Production designer
- Grant Major
- Editor
- Veronika Haussler
- Composer
- Don McGlashan
- Sound design
- John Dennison
- Sound design
- Tony Vaccher
- Costume designer
- Glenys Jackson
- Casting director
- Diana Rowan
