The Annihilation of Fish
Charles Burnett,
1999,
108’
After years of living alone, an eccentric black and white couple find real companionship and romance.
EN
“A story about older people finding love is already something novel in our youth-obsessed culture, but The Annihilation of Fish does something more: it emphasizes how care means respecting the things that people hold dear even when they themselves cannot fully comprehend such things. Love can mean believing the other person’s fictions. Our ‘peculiar habits,’ the film implies, are among the myriad things that make us human, and accepting them in one another is the basis for love in all forms.”
Racquel Gates1
- 1Racquel Gates, “Love and Its Peculiar Habits,” Film Comment, 8 April 2024.
