Director: Andrea Arnold Writer: Andrea Arnold Starring: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender As an heir apparent to the British social realist tradition of Ken Loach’s working-class dramas, director Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank is a painfully bleak portrait of modern life on an Essex estate (which, for us Yanks, is a half-step up from the ghetto) – a steely urban wasteland located somewhere near Tilbury. We never witness the protagonist – an aggressive and jaded 15-year-old named Mia (Katie Jarvis) – attend school (apparently she has been expelled and may be going to boarding school next) and she is rarely out of her life’s uniform of choice: hoodie and sweat pants. Mia resides in a dreary non-descript council flat with her mother – more like a slutty, foul-mouthed and foul-tempered older sister – Joanne (Kierston Wareing) and a potty-mouthed, beer drinking and cigarette smoking prepubescent younger sister – Tyler (Rebecca Griffiths). Together (with no father...
- 3/5/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
The Us trailer for Andrea Arnold directed and written film “Fish Tank,” which was an official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the most honored British film last year, has hit the web.
“Fish Tank” synopsys: Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
“Fish Tank” is a coming of age movie set on a rundown English council estate. The characters are filled with equal measures of frustration, anger, longing and alcohol, without means to release the pressure. The decaying situation is played out with a credibility that leaves the audience unsurprised at the outcomes but gripped by the tension. With nowhere to go but down, the mood is deliberately oppressive. The tank is grimy, and breathing underwater almost impossible, but even so we glimpse gold on the scales of these fish.
This is the latest movie
from Arnold, Academy Award-winning British filmmaker...
“Fish Tank” synopsys: Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
“Fish Tank” is a coming of age movie set on a rundown English council estate. The characters are filled with equal measures of frustration, anger, longing and alcohol, without means to release the pressure. The decaying situation is played out with a credibility that leaves the audience unsurprised at the outcomes but gripped by the tension. With nowhere to go but down, the mood is deliberately oppressive. The tank is grimy, and breathing underwater almost impossible, but even so we glimpse gold on the scales of these fish.
This is the latest movie
from Arnold, Academy Award-winning British filmmaker...
- 1/6/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
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