Directed by Neil Farron, who co-wrote this with Alexandra Dennis-Renner, Fishmonger is the story of Christie (Dominic Burgess), a shy Irish man whose mother is doomed to eternal damnation because she's been consuming her own curdled breast milk which she usually saves for him, the last bachelor on the island, but now she has St. Moira's Bloat, a diabolical diarrhea that the Catholic Church can uniquely diagnose.
There's only one unwed woman, Penny O'Brien, and he's never spoken to her and she hates him to compound the pain. He only has two choices: suicide to damn his soul but to leave his mother free or an unmarried son at her soon approaching death or to go into the waves, bring a cat and find the sea monstress who can give him the wish he needs. But ah, she's done granting the wish of Christian boys. It always ends in heartbreak.
How does the 25 minutes of Fishmonger contain so many multitudes? Gorgeous black and white cinematography? Romantic longing? Tentacle sex? Black metal? Literally, the end of this movie brought me to tears and then cut my breath short with the ending. I've not been surprised by a movie this much in some time and absolutely adored every moment. Quite literally the best thing I have seen at Fantastic Fest and go way out of your way to see this.
There's only one unwed woman, Penny O'Brien, and he's never spoken to her and she hates him to compound the pain. He only has two choices: suicide to damn his soul but to leave his mother free or an unmarried son at her soon approaching death or to go into the waves, bring a cat and find the sea monstress who can give him the wish he needs. But ah, she's done granting the wish of Christian boys. It always ends in heartbreak.
How does the 25 minutes of Fishmonger contain so many multitudes? Gorgeous black and white cinematography? Romantic longing? Tentacle sex? Black metal? Literally, the end of this movie brought me to tears and then cut my breath short with the ending. I've not been surprised by a movie this much in some time and absolutely adored every moment. Quite literally the best thing I have seen at Fantastic Fest and go way out of your way to see this.
