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Fish Tank Footprints
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Though it’s only her sophomore outing, Fish Tank solidifies director
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On the sidewalk outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, a young woman
Director: Andrea Arnold Andrea Arnold’s quick-won reputation as a master of social realism. Director: Steven Peros awakens to find herself lying in the footprints of the Hollywood stars
Producer: Kees Kasander
Set outside London in a bleak Essex housing project, this gritty drama
Producers: Steven Peros, John Peros on the Walk of Fame. She has no idea who she is, never mind how she
Screenwriter: Andrea Arnold
zooms in on the dreary lives of 15-year-old Mia, her younger sister Tyler,
Screenwriter: Steven Peros
got there or what’s happening. Is this a dream? Is it an alternate reality?
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan and their single mother, who live together in an emotional war zone of
Cinematographer: Adam Teichman
Does it matter? With only a few trivial details about her identity at her
Editor: Nicolas Chaudeurge abuse, alcohol, and desperation. Foul-mouthed and moody, Mia (played fingertips, she’s trying to discern the purpose of her journey when a
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Editor: Travis Rust
Cast: Katie Jarvis, Kierston Wareing,
fiercely by newcomer Katie Jarvis) finds her only outlet from the rage mysterious stranger takes her in tow – one who seems to know much
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Cast: Sybil Temtchine, H. M. Wynant,
Michael Fassbender, Harry Treadaway she feels toward her lot in frenetic dancing to wild music – and in her
Pippa Scott
more about her than she does and to care deeply about her circum-
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2009 / color / 124 min. relation to animals, such as the chained horse she attempts to liberate. stances. Through him, she discovers her life is on the line, but it will take
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2009 / color / 80 min.
an entire day to determine the nature of the danger and the decision
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When her mother brings home a new man, Mia is at first suspicious, but she must make to avert it.
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With two Jury Prizes from Cannes to soon warms to the sexy and charismatic Connor (Michael Fassbender). A
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her name, Andrea Arnold has also
security guard, Connor spends his money on the family, takes them on
Steven Peros graduated from New
Hollywood landmarks naturally assume the dimensions of characters
made three award-winning short films;
outings, and treats Mia with tenderness. Conflicted, she finds herself York University, where he won five in this metacinematic drama from writer-director Steven Peros, who
her most recent, Wasp (2003), won a
yearning for a lover as much as a father figure. In turn, Connor pays
awards for his short Old Clowns Don’t
smartly explores the power of narrative and its place in our lives – much
total of 38 international awards.
more than passing attention to Mia and the two begin their own dance
Bite. Based on his play of the same
as he did as author of the critically acclaimed The Cat’s Meow, the
name, Peros wrote the screenplay
of seduction, one that could lead to disastrous consequences – especially
for The Cat’s Meow (2002), starring
film version of which was directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Footprints is
when Connor’s mysterious past comes to light.
Kristen Dunst. He has also directed the
further enriched with appearances by Pippa Scott and H. M. Wynant,
world premiere of his play Karlaboy one-time fixtures both on the silver screen and in the golden age of
Cinematographer Robbie Ryan’s handheld camerawork reveals the
as well as writing three episodes of
television.
claustrophobia of Mia’s world in tightly framed shots, and the contrasts
AMC’s The Lot. Footprints is his feature
he captures between her family’s ramshackle urban living conditions
debut.
and the lush countryside Connor shows them provide a multilayered
Preceded by:
perspective. Winner of a Jury Prize (and nominated for the Golden
inside
Palm) at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Fish Tank follows Arnold’s
Director: Alexandre Philippe
equally impressive Red Road, which received the same honors at Cannes
in 2006. Her live-action short Wasp won an Academy Award in 2003.
USA / 2009 / 9 min.
Allegorical and dreamlike, this tragic coming-of-age story dramatizes
the painful wait of a little girl for her father.
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