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Fish Tank may begin as a patch of lower-class chaos, but it turns into a commanding, emotionally satisfying movie, comparable to such youth-in-trouble classics as The 400 Blows.
A bold new entry in the long-standing British tradition of disquieting social realism.
The characters are guarded, and as we come to understand them scene by scene, they become ever harder to sort into convenient categories of hero and villain.
Writer-director Andrea Arnold, working in British lower-class realism, still finds wondrous moments of connection in Mia's life.
Writer-director Andrea Arnold has created something so real and raw, you may come away with a twinge of guilty voyeurism, a sense of peering too closely and impolitely into other people's lives.
The film swims in an anguish not solely the result of Mia's coming of age -- and yet, it surfaces for air in ways compelling and uncompromising.
Fish Tank is a very strong effort at every level, and should signal great things to come for all involved. Bloody good movie.
(...) Un retrato honesto y descarnado de una adolescencia sin rumbo y sin guía, atento a pequeños detalles que van conformando el mundo y las tensas vicisitudes de sus personajes.
The film becomes a caricature of arthouse miserabilism, which asserts that the only truths are the ugly ones.
The film is remarkable for its depth. It's not drilling in a message about the hopelessness of poverty, nor is it stylising the lifestyle of those living on council estates.
Reveals the incidental arrival of the first trickles of emerging maturity.
Suffocation takes many forms in Fish Tank, the most notable being romantic promises written in water.
Plenty of films have presented us with the Angry Young Man but not so many with the Angry Young Woman ...Andrea Arnold does her bit to help correct this imbalance with Fish Tank...
Stark, powerful drama for older teens and adults.
Mia is not treated like an overly clever ingénue (as in An Education) or as a pious, almost impossibly well-adjusted soul (as in Precious) or worse, as Bella Swan.
The film's rough patches are ... considerably smoothed over by its performers.
Performances are excellent but this is an exceptionally grim experience.
Andrea Arnold seems to be trying hard to emulate the hard edged work of her English realist masters, but she is selfish and uncaring about her audience
It's a tough film and while the ground covered does not bring any surprises, the journey we take is filled with gritty realism and the outcomes realistic
One of the best British films of recent years, Fish Tank marks a leap forward from Arnold's first feature, the contrived Red Road.
Arnold is still a director to watch: the film is fragile, and not faultless: but while Streetdance 3D is raging uptown, do take a look at this one to understand, among other things, how very personal and expressive dance can be for the young.
Not finely polished like a big budget film, Fish Tank's ability to connect with audiences is reflected in the multiple awards the film, its director and its star have received.
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