The film, Angels and Insects, was adapted for the screen from Booker prize-winning author AS Byatt’s Morpho Eugenia, one of the two novellas in her book Angels and Insects. With Dame Antonia on hand to give us a master class on both book and film, Programme Notes are superfluous.

This is a work of clarity, ambition and intelligence. TimeOut.

Compared to the usual exploitative Hollywood view of the subject, Angels and Insects is truly an adult and subversive piece of work. Box Office Review.

Haas directs Angels Insects with elegance and control and seasons the sexier, more melodramatic elements of his tale with subtle, slightly mocking irony Its Rylance, who acts with the lowest of affects and the softest of emotional colors, who builds the most intriguing character. Star turns are rarely this subtle, but Rylance, blessed by the beautiful language and lush inquiry of the screenplay, has no trouble earning our affection and respect. Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle.

An unusual, highly symbolic film-making approach creates an effective drama. Judd Blaise, New York Times.

The reason to see Angels and Insects is for its keen and intricate explorations of human sexual and social interaction. James Bereardinelli, Reel Reviews Nominations Academy Award (1997) Best Costume Design Cannes Film Festival (1995) Golden Palm – Philip Haas, Director PMJA