A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.... (Full plot summary below)
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A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
Leave your thoughts about Little Fish.
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeIt makes a global crisis intensely personal, even romantic. |
| Entertainment WeeklyMary SollosiObsessed though it is with the past, throughout its whole runtime, the best part always lies ahead. |
| The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckTalk about timing. When he began making Little Fish, an intimate and affecting romance in a sci-fi setting, director Chad Hartigan had no idea the world would be coping with a real pandemic in the real 2021. Watching this fictional society begin to fray in panic feels just a tad too close for comfort. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe result is better than smart, it’s stirring. |
| Chicago TribuneKatie WalshHartigan has a knack for sensitive, human dramas, and while Little Fish takes place in a near-future heightened reality, the story is relatable not only because we’re all living through a pandemic ourselves, dealing with grief and loss on a scale that ranges from the deeply personal to the impossibly large, but because this kind of loss is also very real. |
| San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussThis day-after-tomorrow fantasy, made before anybody had even heard of COVID-19, is touchingly romantic and emotionally credible. It’s an escape that resembles our current locked-down lives, with feelings as relatable as they are fictionally heightened. |
| RogerEbert.comChristy LemireLittle Fish would have left a lingering, wistful feeling under ordinary circumstances. Debuting during a pandemic, however, adds a layer of poignancy to this story of a worldwide virus that causes memory loss, creating loneliness and isolation for both its victims and their loved ones. |
| VarietyNick SchagerA portrait of life’s impermanence, it’s a bittersweet small-scale saga whose occasional sluggishness is offset by its sensitivity. |
| The New York TimesKristen Yoonsoo KimOnce you’re swept up in Emma and Jude’s romance — it’s not hard, even though the montages veer a little too precious — the skimmed-over science matters little. This is sci-fi rooted more in feelings than fact. Its resonance is similar to “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” though it’s arguably antithetical in plot. |
| Slant MagazineKeith WatsonThe film gets at the profound truth that our relationship with another person is, at its core, a collection of shared memories. |
