Film

Movie theaters, reviews and showtimes in New York, plus articles, trailers and more
 

Goldfish Memory (2003)

Director: Liz Gill

Average user rating
No reviews

Movie review

From Time Out London

This Irish ensemble piece about love and dating in twenty-first century Dublin feels like a six-part TV series condensed into 85 minutes; a preçis of a Hibernian ‘This Life’ if you will, complete with trademark infidelity, carefree sex, bisexuality and general what-the-hell, I’ll-shag-anything twentysomething hedonism. It’s shot on video too, so it even looks like TV.

The title hints at Gill’s light-hearted take on the perpetual cycle of love: we meet, screw, love, dump and meet again, forgetting everything before. It’s hardly a new idea, and repeated shots of goldfish – in bowls or on funky shower curtains – quickly become tiresome. We watch as sleazy literature professor Tom (Sean Campion) uses the same chat-up lines to snare a series of young students; news reporter Angie (Flora Montgomery) persuades Tom’s ex Clara (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) to bat for both teams; and barman David (Peter Gaynor) opts for bargeman Red (Keith McErlean) over his long-term girlfriend. It’s fiery, sometimes fun stuff that never rises above the level of a late-night soap.

Author: DC 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out London Issue 1781: October 6-13, 2004

  • Print this page
  • Send to a friend

What do you think?
Post your review now

clear rating
Min 1 star. Zero stars will be treated as unrated.

*mandatory fields


Cast & crew

Director: Liz Gill

Cast: Sean Campion, Flora Montgomery, Keith McErlean, Stuart Graham, Fiona O'Shaughnessy

Duration: 87 mins


Features

Making a name for himself

Making a name for himself

Sin Nombre's Cary Joji Fukunaga learned his lessons well.

To the letter

Forty years later, Costa-Gavras's Z still brims with fury.

Mind over matter

David Cronenberg reflects on a most bizarre body: his own corpus of work.

Fool's gold

Can an Oscar win lead to a cursed career? Here are five stories of postaward professional meltdowns.

We are the championed

Terrorists and teens abound in this year's "Film Comment Selects."

A history of violence

Matteo Garrone's kaleidoscopic Gomorrah wallops you with Italy's crime crisis.

True romantic

James Gray exchanges urban amorality for amour in Two Lovers.

Playing in the dark

MoMA salutes pianist Stuart Oderman's 50 years as the one-man sound of silents.

Junk bonds

Cast and crew recall the making of the classic NYC drug drama The Panic in Needle Park.