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Little Fish

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Couple Emma and Jude fight to hold their relationship together as a memory-loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship. Chad Hartigan's romantic sci-fi drama based on a short story by Aja Gabel. Starring Olivia Cooke, Jack O'Connell, Soko and Raul Castillo

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Steve Morrissey

This tale of love in the time of a pandemic sees Olivia Cooke and Jack O'Connell playing a couple who meet on a beach and fall instantly, hopelessly in love. Gooey warm times follow but, in age-old style, one of these lovers is ill-fated and comes down with a (fictional) neuroinflammatory affliction that destroys their memory. Originally slated for a 2020 release and filmed before Covid-19 upended movie schedules, the film actually benefited from the delay, as its observations about the wider effects of a devastating disease - the quack remedies, waves of disinformation and coalitions of the ignorant - are all the more impressive. Mostly, though, this is a film in love with love, and reminiscent of 2011's Perfect Sense, which starred Eva Green and Ewan McGregor as another epidemic-blighted couple. Moving at a measured pace, Little Fish is a film where not much happens narratively, but that gives full rein to Cooke and O'Connell, who operate at impressive levels of emotional intensity.

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Cast

rolenameEmmaOlivia CookeJudeJack O'ConnellBenRaúl CastilloSamanthaSoko TimDavid Lennon

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rolenameDirectorChad Hartigan

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Released on

2021-05-10

Languages

English

Guidance

Swearing

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