Little Fish (2005)
In 2005
Cate Blanchett starred in “Little Fish”, a complex, downbeat and heartfelt
Australian drama directed by Rowan Woods. She is Tracy, a former heroin user,
clean for some years, who is trying to get a bank loan so that she can buy the
video store where she works. But she is mired in a family that still has
connections to the narcotics trade. Family friend Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving),
smack addict, closet gay and
former sports star, nurses a secret affair with retiring drug baron Bradley
(Sam Neill) and exerts a powerful emotional pull in Tracy's life. Most
unsettling is the reappearance in her life of ex-boyfriend Jonny (Dustin
Nguyen) who now wears smart suits and has been fixed up with a fancy stockbroking
job, and seems set to rocket past them all into wealthy respectability. But he,
too, has an awful secret. This movie is set in a neighborhood of Sydney far from the tourist locale: the
Vietnamese quarter known as Little Saigon - where Jonny's family is from. The
film has muscular and forthright performances across the board, perhaps
especially from Cate Blanchett, whose undoubted screen presence is a difficult
commodity to handle for any director, but Woods does the job.
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