Swim Little Fish Swim

Swim Little Fish Swim
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ruben Amar Lola Bessis
Produced by	Ruben Amar Lola Bessis
Written by	Ruben Amar Lola Bessis
Starring	Dustin Guy Defa Brooke Bloom Lola Bessis Anne Consigny Olivia Durling Costello
Music by	Toys and Tiny Instruments, Penn Sultan & Candace Lee Camacho
Cinematography	Brett Jutkiewicz
Edited by	Thomas Marchand
Production companies	PaperMoon Films
Distributed by	Under The Milky Way
Release dates	September 19, 2014 (SXSW) March 11, 2013 (United States)
Running time	95 minutes[1]
Country	United States - France
Language	English - French
Box office	$203,877[2]

Swim Little Fish Swim is a 2014 French-American indie comedy-drama, written, produced and co-directed by Lola Bessis and Ruben Amar.

This film was shot in New York on a shoe-string budget. Once finished, it hit the festival circuit (Rotterdam;^[3] São Paulo;^[4] Jerusalem;^[5] Durban;^[6] CPH:PIX^[7]) after premiering at South By South West (SXSW) in 2013.^[8] Swim Little Fish Swim enjoyed a worldwide theatrical release and it has recently been sold to HBO Europe, Netflix,^[9] RTBF^[10] and OCS^[11] among other international networks.

Cast

• Dustin Guy Defa as Leeward
• Brooke Bloom as Mary
• Lola Bessis as Lilas
• Olivia Durling Costello as Maggie
• Anne Consigny as Françoise de Castillon

Critical reception

• "Refreshingly free of cliches."^[12] - The Hollywood Reporter
• "Delicate. suggests Tiny Furniture with a french twist. persistently charming." - Indiewire^[13]
• “An elegance of construction scarcely seen in like-minded indie comedies." - MTV^[14]
• "Mumbly dialogue, relentlessly jittery camerawork, a star who is also co-director and co-writer: Yes, it's time for another movie that mistakes the claustrophobic world of young New York artsy types for something interesting." - New York Times^[15]
• "Yet another dull entry in the indie downtown New York artist genre. So young and so vapid ... a study of the self-obsessed and utterly deluded, wasting their lives, shot with trendily quivering hand-helds and every other mumblecore cliché in the book." - Film Journal International^[16]
• "Featuring gorgeous photography, solid performances and an absolutely killer soundtrack."^[17] - CriterionCast
• "What comes through strongest is its Woody Allen-esque treatment of Brooklyn, complete with golden light, beautiful young women, glamorous locations and plenty of appealingly tortured—or insufferably neurotic, depending on your point of view—artists."^[18] - Slant Magazine
• "Inspired by John Cassavettes and the Nouvelle Vague’s observations of human beings and Jacques Demy’s charming atmosphere."^[19] The Red List

References

1. "Swim Little Fish Swim (2013) - IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
2. JP. "Swim Little Fish Swim (2014)- JPBox-Office". jpbox-office.com. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
3. "Swim Little Fish Swim | IFFR". iffr.com. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
4. "39ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema - Filme - Swim Little Fish Swim". 39.mostra.org. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
5. "Cinefile: Great movies and exciting master-classes - Arts & Culture - Jerusalem Post". jpost.com. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
6. "Durban International Film Festival (2014)". imdb.com. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
7. "CPH PIX 2016: Swim Little Fish Swim". cphpix.dk. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
8. "Swim Little Fish Swim | Schedule | sxsw.com". schedule.sxsw.com. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
9. "'Swim Little Fish Swim' on Netflix USA - NewOnNetflixUSA". usa.newonnetflix.info. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
10. "La Trois fait la part belle au cinéma et au théâtre tout au long de la saison 2016-2017". rtbf.be. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
11. "Swim little fish swim sur OCS". ocs.fr. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
12. "'Swim Little Fish Swim': Film Review | Hollywood Reporter". hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
13. Eric Kohn. "Review: ‘Tiny Furniture’ With French People? ‘Swim Little Fish Swim’ is a Gentle NYC Delight | IndieWire". indiewire.com. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
14. "Review: 'Swim Little Fish Swim' - MTV". mtv.com. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
15. Neil Genzlinger (September 18, 2014). "The Nurse, the Musician and the Video Artist – in 'Swim Little Fish Swim,' a Couple at a Crossroads". The New York Times. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
16. "Film Review: Swim Little Fish Swim – Film Journal International". filmjournal.com. September 22, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
17. "Joshua Reviews Ruben Amar And Lola Bessis' Swim Little Fish Swim [SXSW 2013 Review]". web.archive.org. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
18. "SXSW 2013: Computer Chess, Swim Little Fish Swim, & Loves Her Gun | The House Next Door | Slant Magazine". slantmagazine.com. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
19. "Lola Bessis: Muses, Cinematic Women | The Red List". theredlist.com. Retrieved October 5, 2016.