Fish Tank Archives - cléo https://cleojournal.com/tag/fish-tank/ a journal of film and feminism Thu, 02 Mar 2017 04:04:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Editor’s Note: Risk https://cleojournal.com/2016/04/18/editors-note-risk/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:34:56 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=1553 Three years ago, a group of women decided that starting a feminist film journal was a risk they wanted to take. They were willing to put their names behind something that would call out sexism, critique the industry they worked in, and do it all on the internet, a place that’s never been friendly to […]

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]]> Escape from Late Capitalism: Fish Tank and Two Days One Night https://cleojournal.com/2016/04/18/escape-from-late-capitalism-fish-tank-and-two-days-one-night/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:29:48 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=1548 “If you could be any animal, what would you be?” “A white tiger.” – Mia, Fish Tank “I don’t exist. I’m nothing, nothing at all.” – Sandra, Two Days One Night Unlike most poor or working class “everyman” characters, the body labouring under capitalism’s long shadow in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (2009) and the Dardenne […]

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