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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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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