Little Fish (2005)
Country: AUS
Technical: col 114m
Director: Rowan Woods
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving
Synopsis:
A rehabilitated drug user with a job in a DVD store tries her damnedest to get a business loan so that she can be her own boss, but her past, which includes her credit rating, her addicted stepfather, her drugdealer ex-boyfriend and feckless brother, stands between her and a new beginning.
Review:
Well-acted but diffuse exposé of the base of the narcotics iceberg. Every level of society seems to be tainted in some way, and the first couple of reels are very effective in their suggestion of characters with a shared past which has left them raw and jumpy. However, the movie treads water after a while and the final reel features an unorthodox showdown between amateur and professional dealers which leaves lots of questions unanswered. Instead, we have an elegaic scene on the beach with some semblance of regained innocence implied by the juxtaposition of the opening shot of a child Cate Blanchett in the same attitude.
Country: AUS
Technical: col 114m
Director: Rowan Woods
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving
Synopsis:
A rehabilitated drug user with a job in a DVD store tries her damnedest to get a business loan so that she can be her own boss, but her past, which includes her credit rating, her addicted stepfather, her drugdealer ex-boyfriend and feckless brother, stands between her and a new beginning.
Review:
Well-acted but diffuse exposé of the base of the narcotics iceberg. Every level of society seems to be tainted in some way, and the first couple of reels are very effective in their suggestion of characters with a shared past which has left them raw and jumpy. However, the movie treads water after a while and the final reel features an unorthodox showdown between amateur and professional dealers which leaves lots of questions unanswered. Instead, we have an elegaic scene on the beach with some semblance of regained innocence implied by the juxtaposition of the opening shot of a child Cate Blanchett in the same attitude.
Country: AUS
Technical: col 114m
Director: Rowan Woods
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving
Synopsis:
A rehabilitated drug user with a job in a DVD store tries her damnedest to get a business loan so that she can be her own boss, but her past, which includes her credit rating, her addicted stepfather, her drugdealer ex-boyfriend and feckless brother, stands between her and a new beginning.
Review:
Well-acted but diffuse exposé of the base of the narcotics iceberg. Every level of society seems to be tainted in some way, and the first couple of reels are very effective in their suggestion of characters with a shared past which has left them raw and jumpy. However, the movie treads water after a while and the final reel features an unorthodox showdown between amateur and professional dealers which leaves lots of questions unanswered. Instead, we have an elegaic scene on the beach with some semblance of regained innocence implied by the juxtaposition of the opening shot of a child Cate Blanchett in the same attitude.