Fish Tank – Cinema Public
Fifteen-year-old Mia in the Essex housing projects. Her adolescent turmoil reach a boiling point when her mother's lover enters the picture.
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Cinema Public
Selected as part of our series Champ libre by Joseph Amenta, director of Soft, currently playing.

Fifteen-year-old Mia lives with her mother and sister in the Essex housing projects. Mia’s adolescent turmoil and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother’s new lover enters the picture.

A virtuoso of social realism, Arnold depicts despair with a poetic, direct sensibility that is unmistakably her own. Released in 2009, Fish Tank heralds the definitive arrival of a major new filmmaker.

Cannes 2009 – Grand Jury Prize