Angels & Insects
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| Angels & Insects | |
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 Angels & Insects DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Philip Haas |
| Produced by | Playhouse International Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Company |
| Written by | A. S. Byatt (novel) Philip Haas, Belinda Haas (screenplay) |
| Starring | Mark Rylance Patsy Kensit Kristin Scott Thomas |
| Music by | Alexander Balanescu |
| Cinematography | Bernard Zitzerman |
| Release date(s) | 26 Jan 1996 |
| Running time | 116 min. |
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Angels & Insects is a 1996 U.S. romance and drama film directed by Philip Haas. It was written by Philip and Belinda Haas with A. S. Byatt after her novella Morpho Eugenia.
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[edit] Plot summary
William Adamson (Mark Rylance), a poor naturalist, returns home to Victorian England in 1864 after having spent years along the Amazon River, where he had studied all kinds of animals, mainly insects. He had lost all his possessions being shipwrecked. Nevertheless he succeeds to marry Eugenia (Patsy Kensit), daughter of the wealthy Alabaster family. With her he starts a family, but a tragic revelation destroys their life.
[edit] Nominations
- Academy Award (1997) for best Costume Design (Paul Brown)
- Cannes Film Festival (1995) for the Golden Palm for Best Director (Philip Haas)
- Chlotrudis Awards (1997) for Best Supporting Actress (Kristin Scott Thomas).
- For her role as Matty Crompton Kristin Scott Thomas won the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress in 1996.
[edit] Controversy
- The film caused some scandal in America because in one scene an actor leaves the bed of a woman and gets dressed while his penis is erect, something almost non-existent in mainstream American film.
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