Chichester Cinema at New Park
Fish Tank
‘Fish Tank’ is the story of Mia (Katie Jarvis), a volatile 15-year-old, who is always in trouble and who has become excluded from school and ostracized by her friends.
One hot summer's day her mother (Kierston Wareing) brings home a mysterious stranger called Connor (Michael Fassbender) who promises to change everything and bring love into all their lives. Touching on the themes of Andrea Arnold’s Academy Award-winning short ‘Wasp’, ‘Fish Tank’ is an original and unique modern tale of our times.
The heartbreaking tale of a teenage misfit has a grim inevitability to the plotting which is offset by Arnold’s talent for multi-layered characters and naturalistic dialogue and her eye for finding the poetic moments in even the bleakest of lives. Fassbinder’s charisma is essential to the appeal of Connor and makes him an imminently likeable and plausible figure even as his actions should attract our censure.
Newcomer Katie Jarvis is every bit as impressive as Mia, finding the vulnerability of the teenager without recourse to sentimentality or surrendering any of her anger or sarcasm. One of 3 British films premiered at Cannes that received great critical acclaim.
Please note that the Fri 16 Oct screening is 20.45 !
Not 15.45 as printed in the Autumn Brochure.
The Screening times below are the correct times.
UK · 2009 · Andrea Arnold · 120min
