Andrea Arnold confidently navigates the pitfalls of the ‘difficult’ second feature with Fish Tank, which confirms her status as a torchbearer for the social realist traditions of Ken Loach and the ...

nepalnepal — Director Andrea Arnold thinks teenagers get bad press. Especially British teenagers, routinely depicted in the country’s media as a social menace – yobs, track-suited “hoodies,” the ...

Kitchen-sink realism has been associated with British theater since the early work of John Osborne in the 1950s, and these depictions of the intimate, messy lives of working-class families have never ...

Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank dominated the nominations for the 12 th British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), which were announced today (October 26). The film received eight nominations including best ...

Here’s what interests the supremely talented British director Andrea Arnold: ordinary people’s lives, poised between transformation and despair; the dire landscapes of sub-middle-class contemporary ...