Rob Mackie 

DVD review: Fish Tank

Andrea Arnold's follow-up to Red Road contains a performance of heartbreaking vulnerability from Katie Jarvis, writes Rob Mackie
  
  

Fish Tank (2009)
Uncompromisingly good ... Fish Tank Photograph: PR

Andrea Arnold's uncompromising ­second feature film, which has more in common with her Oscar-winning short film Wasp (included with the DVD) than her feature debut, Red Road. Debutant Katie Jarvis is in virtually every scene as the elder daughter of a feckless mother in an Essex tower block. It's the vulnerability in Jarvis that is so impressive, the almost-suppressed pleasure she can't help showing when she gets a ­little encouragement from Mum's new ­boyfriend, the versatile Michael ­Fassbender. This is Wasp writ large, and as good as you'd hope.

 

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