https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-andrea-arnold-fish-tank/ What to Watch Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:27:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-andrea-arnold-fish-tank/#comment-14243 Wed, 04 May 2011 21:40:05 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=14#comment-14243 […] Fish Tank — It ain’t the story, it’s how you tell it. In different hands—and by “different” I mean a director with testicles—this coming-of-age drama about a young girl who finds herself being drawn to her mother’s new boyfriend would have become an exploitative piece of “kitchen sink statutory,” but Andrea Arnold manages to avoid those trappings by using her camera and sound design to sensitively, yet frankly, convey her young character’s sense of budding confusion. Newcomer Katie Jarvis is worthy of the hype, but Michael Fassbender’s uncreepily tender performance adds a disarming amount of believability to the proceedings. Read my conversation with Arnold here. […]

]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-andrea-arnold-fish-tank/#comment-13777 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:05:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=14#comment-13777 […] altogether. Like Red Road, Fish Tank is a naturalistic drama that feels like a thriller. Read my HTN Conversation with writer/director Andrea Arnold, then buy it on DVD or […]

]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-andrea-arnold-fish-tank/#comment-11211 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:43:31 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=14#comment-11211 […] Fish Tank — It ain’t the story, it’s how you tell it. In different hands—and by “different” I mean a director with testicles—this coming-of-age drama about a young girl who finds herself being drawn to her mother’s new boyfriend would have become an exploitative piece of “kitchen sink statutory,” but Andrea Arnold manages to avoid those trappings by using her camera and sound design to sensitively, yet frankly, convey her young character’s sense of budding confusion. Newcomer Katie Jarvis is worthy of the hype, but Michael Fassbender’s uncreepily tender performance adds a disarming amount of believability to the proceedings. Read my conversation with Arnold here. […]

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