UK / Netherlands,
2009, 123 min
Directed by:
Andrea ArnoldScreenplay:
Andrea ArnoldCinematography:
Robbie RyanComposer:
Phonso MartinCast:
Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths, Harry Treadaway, Jack Gordon, Anthony Geary, Jason Maza, Joanna HortonVOD (3)
Plots(1)
British director Andrea Arnold won the Cannes Jury Prize for the intense and invigorating Fish Tank, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mia’s adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother’s new boyfriend (a lethally attractive Michael Fassbender) enters the picture. In her young career, Arnold has already proven herself to be a master of social realism, evoking the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach; and she invests her sympathetic portraits of dead-end lives with a poetic, earthy sensibility all her own. Fish Tank heralds the official arrival of a major new filmmaker. (Criterion)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2010 - Outstanding British Film
British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
- 2009 - Andrea Arnold (Best Director)
- 2009 - Katie Jarvis (Most Promising Newcomer)
- 2009 - Best British Independent Film
- 2009 - Katie Jarvis (Best Actress)
- 2009 - Michael Fassbender (Best Supporting Actor)
- 2009 - Kierston Wareing (Best Supporting Actress)
- 2009 - Andrea Arnold (Best Screenplay)
- 2009 - Technical Achievement
European Film Awards
- 2009 - Andrea Arnold (Best Film)
- 2009 - Andrea Arnold (Best Director)
- 2009 - Katie Jarvis (Best Actress)
Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- 2011 - Andrea Arnold (Best Non-American Film)
Guldbagge Awards
- 2010 - Andrea Arnold (Best Foreign Film)
Cannes Film Festival
- 2009 - Andrea Arnold (Jury Prize)
- 2009 - Andrea Arnold (Golden Palm - Official Competition)
Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund
- 2009 - Andrea Arnold (The Norwegian Critics Award)