Fish Tank (2009)

Recommended

UK/The Netherlands

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Andrea Arnold

Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan

Cast: Katie Jarvis, Kierston Wareing, Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Griffiths, Sydney Mary Nash, Harry Treadaway

A council estate dwelling 15-year-old with a mean temper and a passion for dancing, recently expelled from school, slowly builds a tender but increasingly inappropriate relationship with her young mother’s charming and handsome Irish boyfriend, but struggles to come to terms with its inevitable conclusion, in Arnold’s cliché-busting and grimly beautiful follow-up to the excellent Red Road (2006). Iain.Stott