I nearly missed Fish Tank at the cinema due it's limited Theatrical run (you'd class it as indie = LIMITED) but due to a last minute change of plans and determination on my friend's part to see the film I managed to make it to a late showing this past Thursday. And boy, was I glad.
THE STORY
Fish Tank follows the life of 15 year old female protagonist Mia (Katie Jarvis) who's life is well.... shit. She lives on a rundown Essex estate with her mum and sister, has no friends and harbours a secret dream to be a dancer. But her life takes an even more confusing turn when one day her mum (Kierston Wareing) brings home a mysterious new man (Michael Fassbender).
Fish Tank follows the life of 15 year old female protagonist Mia (Katie Jarvis) who's life is well.... shit. She lives on a rundown Essex estate with her mum and sister, has no friends and harbours a secret dream to be a dancer. But her life takes an even more confusing turn when one day her mum (Kierston Wareing) brings home a mysterious new man (Michael Fassbender).
THE ACTING
It really is no wonder that Fish Tank secured the jury prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival - the acting throughout the cast is great! Plaudits should be given to Katie Jarvis especially, with Fish Tank being her first performance (like, ever)!!! It makes you wonder whether the film might have been quite different had she not been in it to drive the right amount of raw energy into the part of Mia? And it might well have been, but she IS the star and I'm happy about that. Michael Fassbender is wonderful, as usual. Although he has a problem with keeping his clothes on in this one..... whilst Kierston Wareing plays the 'mother' role soooo well that it may just be her that I felt most sorry for by the time the credits rolled.
And that is Fish Tank and the character of Mia - giving as good as you get! Directed by Andrea Arnold, who won an Oscar for her short film 'Wasp', the film is an honest and unprejudiced piece of film that unsettles, surprises, loves then loses, but never fails to give as GOOD AS IT GETS!
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It really is no wonder that Fish Tank secured the jury prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival - the acting throughout the cast is great! Plaudits should be given to Katie Jarvis especially, with Fish Tank being her first performance (like, ever)!!! It makes you wonder whether the film might have been quite different had she not been in it to drive the right amount of raw energy into the part of Mia? And it might well have been, but she IS the star and I'm happy about that. Michael Fassbender is wonderful, as usual. Although he has a problem with keeping his clothes on in this one..... whilst Kierston Wareing plays the 'mother' role soooo well that it may just be her that I felt most sorry for by the time the credits rolled.
a comment posted on Rotten Tomatoes perfectly describes how Fish Tank feels:
The kind of thriller that Ken Loach might make in collaboration with Michael Haneke, a slice of social-realist cinema in which we are never sure what – if anything – is about happen. It’s oppressively pessimistic but also utterly gripping.
The tagline to the film reads:
And that is Fish Tank and the character of Mia - giving as good as you get! Directed by Andrea Arnold, who won an Oscar for her short film 'Wasp', the film is an honest and unprejudiced piece of film that unsettles, surprises, loves then loses, but never fails to give as GOOD AS IT GETS!
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