LITTLE FISH Pines For Remembrance Amid Dystopia In The Official Trailer
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is a far different film than Chad Hartigan’s new sci-fi drama, Little Fish, though it’s what echoed to me in terms of story elements and vision, sans the more woeful, interpersonal melodrama of Michael Gondry’s 2004 multi-award winner.
This one definitely puts its own spin on romantic narratives through a slightly more escapist dystopian lens and has Olivia Cooke and Jack O’Connell headlining from a script by Mattson Tomlin. The film is now available in select theaters, digital and cable VOD from IFC films.
Little Fish, a romance set in a near-future Seattle teetering on the brink of calamity, is the fourth feature film from director Chad Hartigan. Little Fish stars Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One, Bates Motel), Jack O’Connell (Unbroken, Skins), Soko (Her, The Dancer), and Raúl Castillo (Looking, We The Animals). Little Fish opens in the midst of a global epidemic: Neuroinflammatory Affliction (NIA), a severe and rapid Alzheimer’s-like condition in which people’s memories disappear, in some cases fading over weeks or months, in others vanishing in an instant. The film centers on couple Jude Williams and Emma Ryerson as they grapple with the realities of NIA, interspersed with glimpses from the past as the two meet and their relationship blooms. But as NIA’s grip on society tightens, blurring the lines between the past and the present, it becomes more and more difficult to know what’s true and what’s false.
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