Katie Jarvis in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank
Two English coming-of-age dramas about young girls at a crossroads whose fates are impacted by older men emerged from the festival circuit as critical darlings in 2009. Lone Sherfig’s An Education was a Sundance hit that has already landed in theaters while Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank made waves at [...]

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I don’t know if I like this new US poster for Andrea Arnold’s Cannes and BIFA award-winning Fish Tank (click to enlarge), but I’m a fan of the film so I’m going to take every opportunity to hammer away at it until it comes out next week.
When it comes to English Girl Coming of Age [...]

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I ran the UK trailer for Andrea Arnold’s Cannes hit and BIFA winner Fish Tank back in August and now here’s the official US trailer that went up at Apple a couple of days ago.
The film tells the story of 15-year-old Mia, a working class English girl aching to break free of her grim existence [...]

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The innaugural AFI New Lights competition prize awarded to first and second time filmmakers went to Andrea Arnold’s terrific Fish Tank and Javier Rebello’s strange but fascinating Woman Without a Piano.
Arnold’s film which won the Prix du Jury at Cannes is a stark and grim portrait of a 15-year-old girl growing up fatherless in a [...]

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Double BIFA nominee Katie Jarvis in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank
This is the part where we start pausing and mentioning just about every awards and festival recognition that comes across the transom.
Here are the British Independent Film Awards. Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, which I finally saw last night and will be writing about soon, got 8 [...]

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As per tradition, the 4-day Telluride Film Festival announced its schedule just 24 hours ahead of its Friday kick off. Though there isn’t much in the way of high-profile world premieres, there are a number of anticipated films including a couple that LiC has managed to catch up with in the last few weeks. Also, [...]

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Andrea Arnold’s Red Road follow up, Fish Tank, popped onto LiC radar when it premiered at Cannes in May where it went on to win the Jury Prize.
It tells the story of a troubled 15-year-old growing up in working class Essex, England with her single mom and her mom’s boyfriend who seems a little too [...]

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