Michael Fassbender vs. a philosophizing goldfish. Who wins? Nobody.
Two couples, in the same room, try to keep it together. The human couple fare differently to the pair of Goldfish in their fish tank. An artful piece exploring choice in life and love. The humour is derived from the wistful musings, in Cantonese, of the male fish and narrator.
Writing
Fish narrator delivers devastating relationship truths in under ten minutes.
Acting
Fassbender's escalating desperation vs. Ying's deadpan Cantonese wisdom.
Direction
Parallel editing that makes aquarium glass feel like a mirror.
Director
Ed Sayers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ed Sanders shot this in a single apartment over one weekend with borrowed equipment.
The Cantonese narration wasn't subtitled in original festival prints, forcing audiences to read the humans' bodies while fish judged them freely.
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