Fish Tank (2009)
Directed by Andrea Arnold
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.
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In some ways, The Florida Project reminded me of Fish Tank .
Influences here range from Ken Loach’s 1969 gem Kes, Carroll Ballard’s 1979 classic The Black Stallion, François Truffaut’s timeless 1959 stunner The 400 Blows, John Boorman’s graceful 1987 drama Hope and Glory and Andrea Arnold’s 2009 marvel Fish Tank.
A mix of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” and “Fish Tank,” Baker (who wrote the film with Chris Bergoch) brilliantly presents both sides of Moonee’s world, the real and the imaginative, held together by a whisper-thin membrane of childhood wonder.
While the performances of Prince and Vinaite are raw (the latter reminded me of Katie Jarvis from Fish Tank in its ferocity), it's Dafoe who is the balancing influence.
It's also a believable teen story reminiscent of classic youth movies like River's Edge and Elephant.
Other movies with similar subject matter (like Andrea Arnold’s wonderful Fish Tank ) build to this kind of encounter with slow, dread-inducing inevitability; in Diary, it happens with surprising speed and directness.
We’ve seen this "way-too-young girl with an older man" scenario many times before, in Lone Scherfig’s An Education, Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, and countless other films.
(Besides American Splendor, another companion film would be Andrea Arnold's blistering 2009 drama Fish Tank, which also involves a teenage girl entering into an affair with her mom's much older boyfriend.)
Michael Fassbender is an Irish actor who can have a threatening charm; did you see him in “ Fish Tank ” (2010), a quite different film about a seductive man who takes advantage of a teenage girl?
Fassbender, whose recent appearances include Fish Tank and Inglourious Basterds , continues a display of impressive range.
Fassbender, too, is a major talent, whom most will recognize from his work in Inglourious Basterds (but those who want to check out the full extent of his controlled brilliance should seek out his performances in Hunger and Fish Tank).
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In this entrancing road movie from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank), an abused teen (Sasha Lane) joins a cadre of other wayward young adults who sell magazines door-to-door across the midwest.
A smart, uncompromising director, several of her films - "Red Road," "Fish Tank" - focused on Great Britain's underclass, and disaffected youth.
Those who know the films Arnold made in her native Britain, including “Red Road” and “Fish Tank,” may be reminded of the lush streak of animal symbolism that has coursed through her work since her Academy Award-winning 2003 short, “Wasp.”
Arnold comes to America after three films that explored a more native and personal form of picaresque, the byways of English passion; though even those movies — Red Road, Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights — had a flair and impetus beyond the norms of Cinema Blighty.
As a huge fan of Arnold’s 2009 feature Fish Tank —which, like American Honey , starred a nonprofessional teen actress whom Arnold discovered in the course of everyday life—I wish I had been more captivated by her first American venture.
Recuerden los mejores momentos de Fish Tank (2009), donde la directora lograba que sintiéramos a su aspirante a bailarina como un amigo cercano.
Recalling Andrea Arnold’s similarly angst-ridden teen drama Fish Tank (2009), Mommy blazes across the screen thanks to Dolan’s impeccable taste in pop music soundtracks and visual compositions.
(You could say the same thing about Andrea Arnold’s “Fish Tank,” which will sear the eyeballs out of your head.)
Of course this is a technique that was mastered to similar effect by Andrea Arnold in Fish Tank.