8. An Angel At My Table By Jane Campion In 1990
Based on Janet Frame’s three autobiographies, ‘An Angel at My Table’ seems like a story right out a Thomas Hardy book where one person is subjected to more misfortunes than one can bear. The story follows a terribly shy and sad girl named Frame living in a poor New Zealand home, through her childhood to adulthood with several ill-luck events trailing her till she is left in a madhouse misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and subjected to more than 200 electroshock treatments. Campion’s presentation of Frame’s story is simple and effortless therefore appears genuinely touching.
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