Just heard Andrea Arnold's new film is going to be out this year, and brilliantly its got Michael Fassbender in it. The first thing I ever saw by Andrea Arnold was a short film on a giveaway DVD stuck to the front of a film magazine. I didn't want the magazine, so I plucked the DVD off and stuck it to the front of a magazine I was buying (therefore, on several levels, this was not technically theft.)
The film was called Wasp, and later went on to win a Short Film Oscar. I then watched Red Road, an amazing, slightly unnerving drama, where you're never quite sure whats going to happen next. If you had to pigeon hole Arnold's films you could probably get a large rubber stamp made up that says 'Ken Loach/Mike Leigh gritty social realism' and womp that on them, and I don't mean that in a negative way. Her films center on council estate life, but never stray into caricature, even though Danny Dyer does have a part in Wasp.
Can't wait for Fish Tank to come out, I heartily recommend watching Red Road in the meantime, I think I'm going to re watch in anticipation.
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