IndieWire
A loving ode that stands on its own as a creative, inventive romance for a broken time.
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Little Fish (2021)
Olivia Cooke (Sound of Metal) and Jack O'Connell (Unbroken) play a couple fighting to keep hold of their relationship despite living in a pandemic where a memory-erasing virus runs rampant. Written by Mattson Tomlin (The Batman), adapting the short story by Aja Gabel.
2021Rating: M101 minsUSA, Canada
Science FictionRomance
- Director:
- Chad Hartigan
- Writer:
- Mattson Tomlin
- Cast:
- Olivia CookeJack O'ConnellRaúl CastilloSoko
Little Fish (2021) / Reviews
The New York Times
The answers are not all there, but the questions keep the film intriguing.
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Los Angeles Times
The film eclipses its conceit, delicately examining both the unique pain that is the loss of intimacy and what makes us fall in love with someone again and again.
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Variety
A bittersweet small-scale saga whose occasional sluggishness is offset by its sensitivity...
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Little White Lies
An inventive exploration of the hardships and pain of losing a loved one...
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RogerEbert.com
Hartigan never strikes a hysterical tone, resulting in realistic horror within the recognisable confines of daily life.
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A.V. Club
Despite the dystopia lurking around the fringes of Emma and Jude’s life together... this looks no different than any of the other movies about good-looking people saying goodbye.
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Entertainment Weekly
(Cooke) and O'Connell both bring the cool project a necessary warmth that sells their relationship, which is the real star here, enough to carry the movie.
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The Guardian
Once you get past its note of emo-mawkishness, there’s something disquieting and poignant (and rather prescient) about this doomed love story of the future...
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