SYNOPSIS:
Emma (Olivia Cooke) and Jude (Jack O’Connell) are in love.
Little Fish charts their relationship and speculates on the importance of memory in keeping them together.
Little Fish is a film created in flashback and grounded by two understated performances from Olivia Cooke and Jack O’Connell. Directed by Chad Hartigan,
Little Fish is both character study, retrofitted rom com and philosophical fable with contemporary undertones.
Concise in cementing the central conceit of viral infection through memory loss,
Little Fish taps into our fear of degenerative dementia. Structurally it comprises of interlinking memories experienced subjectively from multiple perspectives. Director Chad Hartigan first introduces fleeting moments of attraction between our two leads, then back tracks through recollections personalised in Polaroid pictures pinned to wallpaper. Through the use of in-camera effects and manipulated dialogue audiences experience this disease first hand, wi
about the last year, but despite taking place amid a global pandemic,
Little Fishresonates mostly as a love story. Director Chad Hartigan s sci-fi romantic drama (out now), which was produced long before COVID-19 hit and originally scheduled to premiere at 2020 s canceled Tribeca Film Festival, follows a married couple living in the near future, where a pandemic this time of an affliction that attacks the mind has changed the landscape of human life.
Olivia Cooke stars as Emma, a vet tech married to Jude (Jack O Connell), a photographer and recovered addict. They live with their dog, Blue, in a home marked by a gratingly urban-millennial aesthetic and world altered by the ongoing N.I.A. pandemic a disease that steals your memories, be it slowly or all at once. There are no known precautions one can take to avoid contracting N.I.A. (which is not the same thing as Alzheimer s, as a line casually acknowledging the apparent similarities confirms), nor an existing cure, though c
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“Little Fish” would have left a lingering, wistful feeling under ordinary circumstances. Debuting during a pandemic, however, adds a layer of poignancy to this story of a worldwide virus that causes memory loss, creating loneliness and isolation for both its victims and their loved ones.
The timing is purely coincidental. Director Chad Hartigan’s film, from a screenplay by Mattson Tomlin, is based on an Aja Gabel short story published a decade ago. And yet there s the inescapable sense that “Little Fish” is speaking directly to the times in which we live, quietly urging us to hold onto what’s dear. While the symptoms of this illness are different from the ones people with Covid-19 experience, the images we see during the response to it are eerily familiar. People wearing surgical masks sit in waiting rooms, anxiously filling out paperwork on clipboards. Televisions blast news 24/7 about the spread as well as the hope that a clinical trial may bring. And eventually, confu
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Little Fish
That category appears to be the one that director Chad Hartigan dwells in, since his well-received prior features
Morris from America and
This Is Martin Bonner were also unpretentious but serious-minded character dramas. Here, he dips a toe into genre cinema with something like
500 Days of Summer and/or
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotted Mind meets