Fish Tank

Oscar winner Andrea Arnold captures disaffected youth in a broken home.

Mia is 15, all elbows and anger, going at her life in a rundown apartment complex in Essex as if it were one long skirmish in British filmmaker Andrea Arnold's exceptionally well-crafted drama, "Fish Tank." The film features newcomer Katie Jarvis, whom the director first spotted fighting with her boyfriend on a train station platform. The 17-year-old so completely captures the innocence, cynicism and rage of a child of poverty and divorce on the edge of adulthood that it feels as if you are spying on Mia, so achingly real, so tangible does her world seem here. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4959 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 29 gennaio 2010