Andrea Arnold

...to play Mia, the disaffected 15-year-old at the centre of her movie. Her casting team was scouring the county of Essex in England for a scrappy unknown to take the role. They found Katie Jarvis, then 16, on a train platform at Tilbury...

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...the Cannes Film Festival. Britain's Andrea Arnold and South Korea's Park Chan-wook both re-entered the international spotlight with a vengeance, several long years after first wowing Cannes critics and jurors. Arnold's Fish Tank follows...

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...but it drew respectable reviews and heralded Miller as a talented art-house director. Similarly, British director Andrea Arnold (an Oscar winner for her short film Wasp) was one of the big success stories at this year's Cannes Film Festival...

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...forced to deal with her single mom's new boyfriend. Arnold wrote and directed the feature, which premiered in May at the Festival de Cannes, where it received a special jury prize. The film stars newcomer Kate Jarvis, Michael Fassbender,...

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...row set film role in train Katie Jarvis, 17, was an unemployed school-leaver when she was spotted in a railway station and offered the role of Mia in Andrea Arnold's critically acclaimed Cannes contender Charlotte Higgins at the Cannes...

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No Cannes joy for Brit film makers Andrea Arnold poses with the Jury Prize award for her film Fish Tank British film makers failed to take any of the top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival but home-grown director Andrea Arnold did walk away...

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...short film Wasp won an Oscar in 2003. She shares a passion with Loach for filming realism and also for not giving the cast a script, preferring to let the story unfold to them, as in real life. "When I started working on It's a Free...

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...competition films from May's Cannes Film Festival: Alain Resnais' Les Herbes Folles (Wild Grass), Tsai Ming-liang's Face, Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank and Elia Suleiman's The Time That Remains. The festival runs Sept. 10-19. Ticket packages...

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...shared the award with Park Chan-wook's vampire tale Thirst. Arnold took the same prize for her debut feature Red Road in 2006, while Park won the Grand Prize for Oldboy in 2004. 87-year-old director Alain Resnais took to the stage to...

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