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Fish Tank (2009)

Directed by Andrea Arnold · Cinematography by Robbie Ryan

123 min64 frames

Drama

Live, love and give as good as you get.

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Fish Tank — official trailer

What is Fish Tank about?

Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.

Fish Tank is a 2009 British coming of age drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold. The film is about Mia, a volatile and socially isolated 15-year-old, and her relationship with her mother's new boyfriend. Fish Tank was critically acclaimed and won the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the 2010 BAFTA for Best British Film. It was ranked 65th on the BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century list. It was also ranked 91st on The New York Times' list of the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century.

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What does the cinematography of Fish Tank look like?

Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of Fish Tank leans on medium shots (40% of the sample) and close-ups (22%). Cinematographer Robbie Ryan keeps 63% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 65% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 68% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Fish Tank?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Fish Tank (2009) are #31312d, #d1d1cd, #52534e, #11110f, #8f918e, #74766f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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