Angels & Insects
Angels & Insects DVD cover
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.
IMDb profile

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Plot

William Anderson (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. Mark Rylance (* January 18, 1960) is an internationally well-known actor and theatre director. ... Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines. ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of Great Britain marked the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... A satellite image of the mouth of the Amazon River, looking south The Amazon River or River Amazon; Spanish: Río Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) of South America is the second largest, most voluminous river on earth, having a greater total flow than the next six largest rivers combined. ... Classes & Orders See taxonomy Insects are invertebrate animals of the Class Insecta, the largest and (on land) most widely-distributed taxon within the phylum Arthropoda. ... A shipwreck is the remains of a ship after it has sunk or been beached as a result of a crisis at sea. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Alabaster (sometimes called satin spar) is a name applied to varieties of two distinct minerals: gypsum (a hydrous sulfate of calcium) and the calcite (a carbonate of calcium). ...

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.

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Trivia

• The co-writers of the script are a husband-and-wife team, whose children appear in the film.

• For one scene the actress Patsy Kensit's costume had to be treated with female sex hormones of moths to make a cluster of male moths swarm her.

• Four days before the shoot date, 6,000 ants that were transported to the set walked off. Another 6,000 ants were obtained...only to watch as the first batch of 6,000 returned.

• The film caused some scandal in America because in one scene actor Douglas Henshall leaves the bed of a woman and gets dressed while his penis is erect, something almost non-existent in mainstream American film. For this reason alone the film received an NC-17 rating.

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Note

• The film is considered controversial due to its explicit sex scenes.

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External links

• Angels & Insects at the Internet Movie Database

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