An Angel at my Table

A poetic soul has rarely come better disguised." "Nini" is a lively, dreamy redhead, an outsider child from the poorest of backgrounds. From an early age, she seeks and finds words for a world that remains closed to others. This world is shaken when two sisters drown, and as a young woman she spends eight agonising years in a psychiatric ward with a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia. A biography full of fractures, held together by one thing: writing. With a palpable love, great sensitivity and an eye for the purely human, Jane Campion translates the inner landscapes of New Zealand writer Janet Frame into breathtaking film poetry. Winner of numerous awards and celebrated in Venice - an ode to a work full of life.