Jane Campion Collection - 3-DVD Box Set ( The Piano / Bright Star / An Angel at My Table )

Jane Campion Collection - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$27.99

Original Title: The Piano / Bright Star / An Angel at My Table
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
David Donatello Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Vancouver International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
438 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1990 - 2009 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
France ( France, Benelux )
New Zealand ( Australia, New Zealand )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jane Campion

Written By:
Jane Campion
Janet Frame
Laura Jones

Actors:
Holly Hunter ..... Ada McGrath
Harvey Keitel ..... George Baines
Sam Neill ..... Alisdair Stewart
Anna Paquin ..... Flora McGrath
Kerry Walker ..... Aunt Morag
Geneviève Lemon ..... Nessie
Tungia Baker ..... Hira
Ian Mune ..... Reverend
Peter Dennett ..... Head Seaman
Te Whatanui Skipwith ..... Chief Nihe
Pete Smith ..... Hone
Bruce Allpress ..... Blind Piano Tuner
Cliff Curtis ..... Mana
Carla Rupuha ..... Heni - Mission Girl
Mahina Tunui ..... Mere - Mission Girl
Abbie Cornish ..... Fanny Brawne
Ben Whishaw ..... John Keats
Paul Schneider ..... Mr. Brown
Kerry Fox ..... Mrs. Brawne
Edie Martin ..... Toots
Thomas Brodie-Sangster ..... Samuel
Claudie Blakley ..... Maria Dilke
Gerard Monaco ..... Charles Dilke
Antonia Campbell-Hughes ..... Abigail
Samuel Roukin ..... Reynolds
Amanda Hale ..... Reynolds Sister
Lucinda Raikes ..... Reynolds Sister
Samuel Barnett ..... Mr. Severn
Jonathan Aris ..... Mr. Hunt
Olly Alexander ..... Tom Keats
Kerry Fox ..... Janet Frame
Alexia Keogh ..... Janet Frame as adolescent
Karen Fergusson ..... Janet Frame as a teenager
Iris Churn ..... Mother
Jessie Mune ..... Baby Janet
Kevin J. Wilson ..... Father
Francesca Collins ..... Baby Jane
Melina Bernecker ..... Myrtle
Mark Morrison ..... Bruddie Frame as child
Katherine Murray-Cowper ..... Young Isabel
Mark Thomson ..... Billy Delaware
Brenda Kendall ..... Miss Botting
Paul Moffat ..... Dis McIvor
Blair Hutchison ..... Bully Boy
David McAuslan ..... Bully Boy

Synopsis:

The Piano (1993)
A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she's soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.
Bright Star (2009)
The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.
An Angel at My Table (1990)
In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she stays at a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she starts to write novels.

The Piano (1993)
It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's North Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation.
Bright Star (2009)
It's 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house, the Dilkes family who live in the other half. Through their association with the Dilkes, the fatherless Brawne family know Mr. Brown. The Brawne's eldest daughter, Fanny Brawne, and Mr. Brown don't like each other. She thinks he's arrogant and rude, and he feels that she is pretentious, knowing only how to sew (admittedly well as she makes all her own fashionable clothes), flirt and give opinions on subjects about which she knows nothing. Insecure struggling poet John Keats comes to live with his friend, Mr. Brown. Miss Brawne and Mr. Keats have a mutual attraction to each other, a relationship which however is slow to develop in part since Mr. Brown does whatever he can to keep the two apart. But other obstacles face the couple, including their eventual overwhelming passion for each other clouding their view of what the other does, Mr. Keats' struggling career which offers him little in the way of monetary security (which will lead to Mrs. Brawne not giving consent for them to marry), and health issues which had earlier taken the life of Mr. Keats' brother, Tom.
An Angel at My Table (1990)
New Zealand poet Janet Frame is the subject of Jane Campion's biographical drama, which presents a poetically evocative look at the authoress' turbulent life. The film begins with a look at Frame's childhood, showing her as a bright but odd-looking, emotionally fragile young girl with a knack for writing. Frame faces great difficulty in adapting to the conventional rural life around her, and her social awkwardness only worsens as she grows older. After she fails in her attempt to become a schoolteacher due to an intense panic attack, she is subject to a psychiatric evaluation and shamefully misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic. Frame is subsequently committed to a mental institution, where she suffers years of unnecessary shock treatments and other horrors. Her salvation comes through her writings, however, which attract the attention of a renowned author who arranges her release. While the nightmare of Frame's institutionalization is presented with great sensitivity and power, Campion and screenwriter Laura Jones, to their credit, refuse to simplify her story to this one pivotal event. Instead, they pay equal attention to Frame's subsequent life, as she slowly adjusts life in the outside world, experiencing literary success and her first romance. Expressive visuals add immeasurably to the total effect, while Kerry Fox's superb performance creates a truly affecting portrait of Frame. Impressively, the film was originally made as a mini-series for New Zealand television, and slightly reedited for a later theatrical release.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 April, 2015.