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British director Andrea Arnold won the Cannes Jury Prize for the intense and invigorating Fish Tank, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mia’s adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother’s new boyfriend (a lethally attractive Michael Fassbender) enters the picture. In her young career, Arnold has already proven herself to be a master of social realism, evoking the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach; and she invests her sympathetic portraits of dead-end lives with a poetic, earthy sensibility all her own. Fish Tank heralds the official arrival of a major new filmmaker.

Special Features:

• All three of Arnold's short films:
  • Milk (1998)
  • Dog (2001)
  • Wasp (2003) (Oscar-winning short)
• New video interview with actor Kierston Wareing
• Interview with actor Michael Fassbender from 2009
• Audition footage
• Stills gallery by on-set photographer Holly Horner
• Original theatrical trailer
• A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie