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Woman Director | New Zealand
Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
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Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
Best Foreign Film | 1992 | Jane
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1990 | Kerry
1990 | Jane
Best Film | 1990 | Bridget
Best Film | 1990 | Jane
1990 | Jane
Best Foreign Director Regista del Miglior Film Straniero | 1991 | Jane
Best Film | 1990 | Jane
Kerry Fox gained two stones (12.7kg) for her role as Janet Frame. She managed this by drinking liters of Coca-Cola, eating packets of chocolate biscuits and going on the pill.
Was the first film from New Zealand to be screened at the Venice Film Festival, where it received multiple standing ovations and was awarded the Special Jury Prize. In addition to virtually sweeping the local New Zealand film awards, it also took home the prize for best foreign film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the International Critics' Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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).
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #301.
Kerry Fox's debut.
