ByTowne ByTowne Cinema
ByTowne Cinema
325 Rideau St. Ottawa K1N 5Y4
Info Line: (613) 789-FILM
Fish Tank
Print this pageWinner of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize
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Mia (Katie Jarvis) is a cauldron of teen-girl sullenness and yearning in the vivid British drama Fish Tank – we can’t take our eyes off her, even if her anger is familiar to audiences of the subgenre of cinematic realism known as British miserablism.
A 15-year-old loner who doesn’t play well with others, Mia lives in a crappy U.K. housing project with her aggressive kid sister (Rebecca Griffiths) and her boozy mother (Kierston Wareing), and secretly breaks into an abandoned apartment to practice hip-hop dance moves; she’s a poster girl for the depression of underbelly England. So the sudden appearance of a sexy man in her mother’s life is as unnerving as it is exciting. Connor (Inglourious Basterds’ seductive Michael Fassbender, first admired in glorious shirtlessness) turns on a dangerously live switch in a girl who doesn’t yet understand her own wiring.”
– Lisa Schwartzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
The ByTowne doesn't have a parking lot of its own, but denizens of downtown can usually find street parking close by fairly easily.
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