Little Fish (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Little Fish |
| Original title | Little Fish |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English , Vietnamese |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rowan Woods |
| script | Jacquelin Perske |
| production |
Richard Keddie , Vincent Sheehan , Liz Watts |
| music | Nathan Larson |
| camera | Danny Ruhlmann |
| cut |
Alexandre de Franceschi , John Scott |
| occupation | |
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Little Fish is an Australian film drama from the year 2005 .
action
Former heroin addict Tracy works in a video store in Sydney's Asian neighborhood . She wants to expand the shop into an internet café , but cannot get a loan because of her criminal past. Her ex-lover Jonny wants to help her out. He appears to be a successful stockbroker after spending several years in Vancouver . But this turns out to be a pretense: Together with Tracy's brother Ray, he is a drug dealer. The three of them try to get a deal out of town at a drug lab. Instead, they can only take Tracy's buddy Lionel, a drug addict ex-athlete who is bleeding to death on the floor.
Awards
Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Noni Hazlehurst, the two film editors and the sound designers won the Australian Film Institute Award in 2005 . The film received eight other nominations for the same award, including for Rowan Woods and for Jacqueline Perske.
Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Noni Hazlehurst won the 2005 Film Critics Circle of Australia Award. Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and the Sound Experts won an IF Award in 2005 ; the film received five other nominations for the same award.
Reviews
“The dark film puts its complex story together from fragmentary parts and convinces primarily through the great ensemble performance of the actors; The main actress is outstanding and conveys oppressively how her character has to struggle with primal fears again and again. "
Web links
- Little Fish in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Little Fish . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 674 DVD).
- ↑ Little Fish. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 9, 2017 .