The year is 2021. A frightened, angry crowd lines up outside a medical center, desperate for a cure for a terrible virus. “He pushed in front!” someone shou
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Film Review: ‘Little Fish’
This sci-fi love story takes place during a pandemic, when a virus causes its victims to lose their memories
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The year is 2021. A frightened, angry crowd lines up outside a medical center, desperate for a cure for a terrible virus. “He pushed in front!” someone shouts.
Talk about timing. When he began making Little Fish, an intimate and affecting romance in a sci-fi setting, director Chad Hartigan had no idea the world would be coping with a real pandemic in the real 2021. Watching this fictional society begin to fray in panic feels just a tad too close for comfort.
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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.
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Little Fish. Produced in the pre-crisis world of 2019, Chad Hartigan’s latest film seemed destined for a low profile, from a premiere at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival to an undoubtedly quiet release somewhere down the line. But even though the quarantine scuttled that debut, it also left the script with a resonance no one involved could have possibly hoped for. The story of Emma (Olivia Cooke) and Jude (Jack O’Connell), a couple fighting to survive a virus decimating the world’s population, has become an unwitting document of its era.