Painted Angels

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Painted Angels
Directed by Jon Sanders
Written by
  • Anna Mottram
  • Jon Sanders
Produced by
  • Laurence Bowen
  • Scott Garvie
Starring
CinematographyGerald Packer
Edited byMaysoon Pachachi
Music byDouglas Finch
Production
companies
BBC Films
Telefilm Canada
Shaftesbury Films
SaskFilm
Greenpoint Films
Heartland Motion Pictures
Distributed byArtificial Eye (UK)
Cinepix Film Properties (Canada)
Lions Gate Films (US)
Release date
  • 4 February 1998 (1998-02-04)(International Film Festival Rotterdam)
Running time
108 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Canada
LanguageEnglish

Painted Angels (1997) (US: The Wicked Wicked West) is a film by Jon Sanders starring Brenda Fricker, Kelly McGillis, Meret Becker, Bronagh Gallagher, Lisa Jakub and Anna Mottram.

The film was shot in Saskatchewan, Canada, and follows the lives of several women in a brothel in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. [1] It premièred at the International Film Festival Rotterdam [2] and was released in cinemas in the UK by Artificial Eye in February 1999 and on video in June 1999.

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References

  1. French, Philip (20 June 1999). "This week's videos". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  2. "Painted Angels". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 28 August 2014.