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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 novel Morpho Eugenia.

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.

Cast

William Anderson: Mark Rylance
Eugenia Alabaster: Patsy Kensit
Matty Crompton: Kristin Scott Thomas
Sir Harald Alabaster: Jeremy Kemp
Edgar Alabaster: Douglas Henshall
Lady Alabaster: Annette Badland
Robin: Chris Larkin
Rowena Alabaster: Saskia Wickham

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.

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.

Note

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

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