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An Angel at My Table

Until Peter Jackson discovered Tolkien, Jane Campion's compassionate adaptation of Janet Frame's autobiography was easily New Zealand cinema's finest hour.

...the record of a life as lived, beginning in childhood with a talented, dreamy girl whose working-class parents loved her, and continuing to follow her as she was gradually shunted by society into a place that almost killed her.

...a heartfelt tribute to a soft-spoken, melancholic writer from a director who claims to cherish her work as being very important in her own development.

Lushly photographed and beautifully acted...