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2/5/2021
Olivia Cooke and Jack O Connell play a couple confronting a memory-destroying pandemic in Chad Hartigan s drama.
A sad, gorgeous film about love amid a pandemic, Chad Hartigan s
Little Fish features not our real disease (it was in the can before COVID-19) but an invented one in which healthy people lose chunks of their identities bit by bit or all at once. Think Alzheimer s, but a more aggressive and unpredictable affliction, and one that hits a shocking percentage of the world s population. Crucially for this story, it strikes the young as well as the old, so a couple who are barely past their wedding day (Olivia Cooke and Jack O Connell) can have their beautiful lives torn apart by it in slow motion. Based on a short story by Aja Gabel, it makes a global crisis intensely personal, even romantic.