Fish Tank
NB! Additional screening on Sunday 20th Sep at 2pm at Maxim 2.
Wiry 15-year-old Mia Williams (non-pro thesp Katie Jarvis, mesmerizing) has been kicked out of school for unexplained reasons. She now spends her days drinking when she can get her hands on booze and dancing to hip-hop tunes in an abandoned apartment – just upstairs from the digs she shares with her young mother Joanne (Kierston Wareing) and little sister Tyler (Rebecca Griffiths, also non-pro) both of whom Mia bickers with constantly.
When Joanne brings home her new b.f., hunky security guard Connor (Michael Fassbender), the attraction between him and Mia is immediately palpable, despite Mia’s initially hostile attitude. - - [O]nly Catherine Hardwicke’s ”Thirteen” and a handful of other films have dared to evoke so frankly the nature of teenage femme sexuality, as young women test their power with a mixture of precocity and naivete.
– LESLIE FELPERIN, VARIETY
Duration: 120 min
Dialogue: English
Subtitles: Swedish
