Description
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.
Special Features
- Director-approved digital transfer (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Three short films by director Andrea Arnold: Milk (1998), Dog (2001), and the Oscar-winning Wasp (2003)
- New video interview with actor Kierston Wareing
- Audio conversation with actor Michael Fassbender from 2009
- Audition footage
- Stills gallery by set photographer Holly Horner
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie