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Fire at Sea offers a clear-eyed yet empathetic look at a corner of the world whose terrain may be unfamiliar to many, but whose people's story remains universal.
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Fire at Sea is a powerful, and beautifully shot, look at the migrant crisis-one that manages to subvert viewer expectations of what has become for many a familiar news subject. June 16, 2017 | Full Review…
Fire at Sea is a powerful, and beautifully shot, look at the migrant crisis-one that manages to subvert viewer expectations of what has become for many a familiar news subject.
Anna Diamond
Who needs voiceovers when a director's camera has this much to say? February 3, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Who needs voiceovers when a director's camera has this much to say?
Scott Marks
A fascinating study in contrasts, "Fire at Sea' shows how the normal and painfully abnormal exist side by side - the horrific and the serene, the tragic and the mundane, global crisis and daily humdrum. January 20, 2017 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
A fascinating study in contrasts, "Fire at Sea' shows how the normal and painfully abnormal exist side by side - the horrific and the serene, the tragic and the mundane, global crisis and daily humdrum.
Tom Long
Though conceived as a humanitarian statement, the movie wouldn't be as memorable or challenging without its quotidian aspect. December 15, 2016 | Full Review…
Though conceived as a humanitarian statement, the movie wouldn't be as memorable or challenging without its quotidian aspect.
J. R. Jones
We feel the bewilderment of the parochial yet decent residents, the helplessness of the well-intentioned yet overwhelmed rescuers, and the anguish and disorientation of the refugees. December 7, 2016 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
We feel the bewilderment of the parochial yet decent residents, the helplessness of the well-intentioned yet overwhelmed rescuers, and the anguish and disorientation of the refugees.
David Lewis
What makes the movie worth seeing, is the sequence with the Africans chanting in the detention center about making it from Africa, through the scorching Sudanese desert and Libya, to Lampedusa. October 28, 2016 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
What makes the movie worth seeing, is the sequence with the Africans chanting in the detention center about making it from Africa, through the scorching Sudanese desert and Libya, to Lampedusa.
Peter Rainer
Rosi lets viewer to take in and think for themselves about the situation without judgment. July 17, 2020 | Full Review…
Rosi lets viewer to take in and think for themselves about the situation without judgment.
Dustin Chang
A compelling if maddening attempt to drag a reality-TV-distracted film audience into the real world of this decade's "boat people." June 9, 2020 | Full Review…
A compelling if maddening attempt to drag a reality-TV-distracted film audience into the real world of this decade's "boat people."
David Lamble
Fuocoammare is a decent movie with good intentions, but its runtime works against it in the end, making the viewer check out and not follow the story after about the halfway point. April 14, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Fuocoammare is a decent movie with good intentions, but its runtime works against it in the end, making the viewer check out and not follow the story after about the halfway point.
Emilie Black
With exquisite cinematography and intimate scenes that would be at home in dramatic fiction, Fire At Sea gradually envelops the viewer in a microcosm of a global tragedy. August 13, 2019 | Full Review…
With exquisite cinematography and intimate scenes that would be at home in dramatic fiction, Fire At Sea gradually envelops the viewer in a microcosm of a global tragedy.
Brian D. Johnson
An original and leftfield look at the Afro-Eurasian migrant crisis of recent years, Fire at Sea is, more than anything, a showcase for the extraordinary intelligence of its director, Gianfranco Rosi. April 1, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An original and leftfield look at the Afro-Eurasian migrant crisis of recent years, Fire at Sea is, more than anything, a showcase for the extraordinary intelligence of its director, Gianfranco Rosi.
Calum Baker
Early on in Fire at Sea... [director] Gianfranco Rosi makes his position clear when it comes to portraying the drama of those who dare to cross the stretch of the Mediterranean that joins Africa with the island of Lampedusa. [Full review in Spanish] October 31, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Early on in Fire at Sea... [director] Gianfranco Rosi makes his position clear when it comes to portraying the drama of those who dare to cross the stretch of the Mediterranean that joins Africa with the island of Lampedusa. [Full review in Spanish]
Paula Arantzazu Ruiz
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