Fish Tank
Fish Tank • 2h 2m
Directed by Andrea Arnold • 2009 • United Kingdom
Starring Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing
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.
Up Next in Fish Tank
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Kierston Wareing on FISH TANK
This piece features actor Kierston Wareing, who was interviewed in London in the fall of 2010.
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David Schwartz and Michael Fassbender...
The following is audio from a conversation between David Schwartz, chief curator at Museum of the Moving Image, and actor Michael Fassbender, which took place in Queens on January 6, 2010, as part of the museum’s Pinewood Dialogues series.
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FISH TANK Audition Footage
These auditions for the pivotal role of Mia reveal the array of talent available to director Andrea Arnold during the casting of FISH TANK.
