Fish Tank (2009)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 123 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / Netherlands
Directed by: Andrea Arnold
Stars: Katie Jarvis, Kierston Wareing and Michael Fassbender
IMDb score:
7,3 (68.114)
Releasedate: 11 September 2009
Fish Tank plot
"Live, love and give as good as you get."
Mia is a 15 year old girl who is always in trouble and who has been banned from school and banned by her friends. One hot summer day, her mother brings a mysterious stranger named Connor, who promises to change everything and bring love into their lives.
Actors and actresses
Mia Williams
Conor O'Reily
Joanne Williams
Tyler Williams
Billy
Billy's Brother
Billy's Brother
Kelly
Keeley
Keeleys Dad
Reviews & comments
mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14596 messages
- 4552 votes
Summer for me is not those hot sun-drenched days that sometimes occur. No, those are balmy evenings with the late summer twilight in the background and alcohol within reach. A little over half way through are some of these fantastic scenes that totally give me that feeling. Perfect in terms of atmosphere, but also in the film itself, these scenes have a certain tension. It's by far the best twenty minutes of the film and one of the best I've seen in the last year.
Yes, at times and certainly the whole part before those scenes, this film is right up my alley. Little plot and above all an atmospheric sketch of someone's life and of a certain environment. A recording camera, natural acting and a certain realism and a certain credibility. Sometimes very nicely shot with all fine colors and images with a strong expressiveness. All this with a strong Jarvis who is cute, helpless and above all a victim that you somehow think she can do more, but know that will never happen. Jarvis is lonely, but fortunately not with being quiet for the sake of being quiet, as is so often seen in these kinds of films. Her facial expressions and looks are also amazing and betray a huge hotbed of emotions. In addition, a strong Fassbender who, as always, gives an enormous presence and has a good chemistry together with Jarvis.
The film only really collapses in the last half hour. There is more plot as if they suddenly want to finish the film. But why do you want to finish something? And especially those parts with the break-in and the kind of kidnapping really don't fit the film at all and really detract from it. That scene with Nas in the background is very nice and the film ends nicely in the end. 4.0*.
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eRCee
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- 13449 messages
- 1981 votes
What can that Andrea Arnold shoot scenes. Take the moment Fassbender puts Mia to bed, beautiful! In addition, just about all dance scenes. The car ride with 'California dreaming' in the version by Bobby Womack (Arnold does a Kar-wai Wongetje here, by repeating the song several times). In any case, the whole setting and atmosphere is very well done. Katie Jarvis also puts in a great performance, would like to see her again as de grunt already indicates. I'm afraid it would have to come from Andrea Arnold herself (although she also fits Loach, or, just out of the box, maybe Dolan? film, so the idea that she should hardly have to act that some here express can go in the trash, I think). Overall, the story doesn't impress me enough to become lyrical about it, but it is a good film for sure, this Fish Tank.
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De filosoof
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- 2487 messages
- 1698 votes
The beginning of the film is immediately sizzling because you fall in the middle of a totally dysfunctional family in the English substratum in which everything is so completely derailed that it feels like you are tumbling from one drama into another. Around the middle of the film it gets a bit lingering because then there are few new or surprising developments, but towards the end the film springs up again in a crescendo to a climax. All in all, the film is somewhat unbalanced - the dancing also takes the pace of the film completely out of it - but overall impressive.
PS. I must have seen the movie once in 2015 when it was on TV without realizing it now but apparently I gave the exact same score then as I would give now. It's funny to see that I'm consistent in my appreciation, even after quite a few years of extra film experience.
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