50
For Americans, the measured accumulation of detail can be frustrating. It's like listening to a story about someone you barely know and being forced to prompt the teller, "And then? And then?"
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
80
Campion's grasp of her material is intellectually and emotionally assured, while Fox's extraordinary performance demonstrates an honesty, courage and power that's rarely attempted, let alone achieved.
80
A big, sprawling, unshapely thing, insufferably verbose and, at the same time, touched with magnificence.
75
Jane Campion upends staid genre convention with an impressionistic approach to character.
78
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Frame's story is told with an intriguingly naked honesty but one that never drags the viewer into emotional prurience. It creates a fascinating portrait.
67
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Told in Campion’s fancifully fractured style, An Angel at My Table is very accomplished, but it’s also an epic act of perversity: a 2-hour-and-38-minute movie about a wallflower.
100
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
It tells its story calmly and with great attention to human detail and, watching it, I found myself drawn in with a rare intensity.