Plot
When a bubbly young artist moves into a couple's tiny Chinatown apartment, their already fragile balance is upset even further.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 6.6/10 (232 voted)
Critic's Score: /100
Director: Ruben Amar
Stars: Lola Bessis, Dustin Guy Defa, Brooke Bloom
Storyline
Maggie? Rainbow? Leeward and Mary cannot even agree on their three year old daughter's name anymore. Mary is a hardworking nurse who dreams of only one thing: changing her life. She resents her husband for being an irresponsible, overgrown adolescent, incapable of holding down a job. Leeward is an atypical, idealistic musician who fancies himself a misunderstood artist and a New Age visionary. Enter Lilas, a 19 year old French artist and the daughter of a world famous painter, who is trying to make it in New York and get away from an overbearing mother. When the bubbly young woman moves into the couple's tiny Chinatown apartment, their already fragile balance is upset even further. Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, Swim Little Fish Swim is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.
I saw Swim Little Fish Swim at Créteil Film Festival last Tuesday. This
is, for now, one of my favorite film or the year! This is a really
cool, refreshing, exotic, funny and entertaining movie. The actors
performances are always true and the whole movie is very
realistic(which is increasingly rare in French films) The pace is well
thought out, the scenario well-crafted and the visual style is
beautiful, which is rare in low-budget films. But what impressed me the
most are the music/soundtrack (the main character is a musician), very
original and funny. I look forward to the release to watch it with my
mother (64 years old) and my son (14 years) because it is a film
multi-generational in many ways!
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