Fish Tank
"Fish Tank" (UK. 124 minutes – winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes 2009) Oscar winner Andrea Arnold ("Red Road") asserts her place at the pinnacle of contemporary British cinema with "Fish Tank," her keenly observed and unflinchingly realistic portrait of life in a rough-and tumble Essex housing project. The booze-swilling Mia (Katie Jarvis, a revelation in her first screen role) is an alienated, emotionally volatile teenager whose sluttish mother (Kierston Wareing) brings home a parade of anonymous one-night lovers. Mia's life is turned upside down by the arrival of the latest man in the parade, the charming new boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender, named best actor at last year's Festival for "Hunger").
Fish Tank - Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun - October 14, 2009
Read the review and briefly answer the following questions.
a. [Situation] What is the document? Where and when was it published? Who by?
b. [Word Search:] attentivement / intensément / de près ; courageusement /
sans concessions; mouvementé ; banlieue ; qui lève le coude/ soulard(e) ; (de) salope ; sens dessus dessous.
c. [Content]
1. Who is the film director? Is it a man or a woman? Is (s)he an absolute beginner?
2. What’s her portrait of underprivileged Britons' life like?
3. Is the main character played by a professional actress?
4. What image does the film give of her mother?
5. What kind of role does actor M. Fassbender play in the story?
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