It arrives in limited theaters on January 15 and was talked about plenty throughout 2009 as Fish Tank made the rounds starting at Cannes, hit up Edinburgh, moved to Telluride, then Toronto and on and on. It won the Jury Prize at Cannes and Best British Performance in Edinburgh for star Katie Jarvis and I have been anxious to give it a watch since watching the promo trailer back in August.
The film is a coming-of-age story centering on 15-year-old Mia (Jarvis) who is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her, without any creative outlet for her considerable energies save a secret love of hip-hop dance. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender), she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life. A clear-eyed, potent portrait of teenage sexuality and vulnerability.
Fassbender, as I am sure many of you know, starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds as Lt. Archie Hicox as well as Steve McQueen’s Hunger, which hits Criterion DVD and Blu-ray on February 16. Fish Tank writer/director Andrea Arnold won the Oscar for Best Short Film (Live Action) in 2003 for Wasp.
You can check out the trailer directly below and be on the look out for the film in limited theaters on January 15 as well as On Demand on January 13.
You can watch the trailer in high definition at Apple.
