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Little Fish movie review, In Film Australia
Exceptionally resonant and credible performances by some of Australia’s best actors tackle the unpopular subject of recovering drug addiction in a way we rarely see in Little Fish , a film of lacerating honesty by Rowan Woods (The Boys ).
Set in Sydney’s outer Western suburb of Cabramatta, known as Little Saigon, the film depicts an environment where drugs touch and claim more young lives than not.


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Grimm 141: The Little Lamb and the Little Fish
141 The Little Lamb and the Little Fish Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Once upon a time were a little brother and a little sister who loved each other with all their hearts.
The little bird will bring me straw, The straw I'll give then to the cow.
Little cat will catch some mice for that, The mice I'll hang up in the smoke, And after that I'll cut them up.
Because she understood the art of witchcraft she bewitched them both, transforming the little brother into a fish, and the little sister into a lamb.
The little fish swam back and forth in the pond and was sad, and the little lamb walked back and forth in the meadow and was sad, and would not eat.
We have nothing else for our guests.' The cook went and got the little lamb, took her into the kitchen, and tied her feet together.
The cook then took out his knife and was whetting it on the doorstep in order to kill the little lamb when he saw how a little fish was swimming back and forth in the water in front of the gutter and looking up at him.
This was the little brother, for when the little fish saw the cook take the little lamb away, he followed them, swimming along the pond as far as the house.

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Little Fish Movie Review (2006) from Channel 4 Film
Little Fish Review 114 minutes, Australia (2006), 15 A thirtysomething former heroin addict struggles to rebuild her life and avoid being pulled back into her junkie past.
One of the many refreshing things about Rowan Woods' engrossing Little Fish , is that it gives a pre-eminent actresses a chance to play a character who at least partly shares her own history.
Not to suggest that the real Blanchett shares any of the same dilemmas as her Tracy Heart, a former junkie struggling to set up on her own in Sydney's 'Little Saigon'; but by playing a woman nearer to her own background, Blanchett's Heart reveals a little more of her own soul than any - admittedly superb - portrayal of royalty, English or Hollywood, ever could.
Little Fish - the title ostensibly refers to tiny fish-shaped drug sachets, but obviously references those struggling to stay afloat in the swirling currents of a big city - is especially adept at showing how the habits of addictive behaviour can long outlast any actual drug-taking..

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Little Fish: triple j film reviews
Little Fish is Australian director Rowan Woods' much-anticipated second feature after his electrifying debut with The Boys (1998).
But so do the rest in Little Fish such is the integrity of the script, performances and direction.
Little Fish is very much the sum of its parts, quite a beautiful film to look at and listen to, a quietly powerful piece even with some suspense thrown in for good measure.
Little Fish is an intimate, compelling film where confronting subject matter and social realism is elevated to a higher, more poetic plane through the deft use of an atmospheric, artistic style.
It worked for Gregg Araki with the excellent Mysterious Skin and it does also for Woods with his equally confident Little Fish .
Brilliant direction, for me its the constant little hints that Woods sneaks in to keep me interested for once.
Its funny how every once in a while, you sit down to watch a movie and come out the other side a little less unsure of yourself..
For me the stand-out is the casting and characterizations of 'little fish' stuck in the mid-range crim/drugs 'pond' which are so totally convincing.

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