Fish Tank

There has been a long tradition of socially conscious films made in Britain highlighting what life is like for a large number of people at one end of the scale in our country. This tradition is ably continued in the film Fish Tank that tells the story of Mia. She has dreams of escaping the Essex estate where she lives with her mother and daughter. Throughout the film, she explores a range of possibilities and sometimes makes some questionable and potentially disastrous choices. The landscape is bleak and unforgiving but Mia does her best to foster her ambitions. November 2009