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Critics Consensus: 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.
Critic Consensus: 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.
All Critics (88) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (83) | Rotten (5)
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.
Who needs voiceovers when a director's camera has this much to say?
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.
Though conceived as a humanitarian statement, the movie wouldn't be as memorable or challenging without its quotidian aspect.
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.
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.
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]
I actually liked how Rosi executes this, though -- it brings a fuller picture to the fore, showing that intersections are not always possible, or even necessary.
Fire at Sea is a documentary that could change the world if the right people see it, and all intelligent and engaged viewers who experience it will not be left unchanged.
The sea is as important as the island in this elemental film.
The Dutch post-punk band the Ex titled one of their albums "History's What's Happening Now." I'm sure that's the same point [Director Gianfranco] Rosi intended to make, but something got lost in translation.
Rosi instils "Fire at Sea" with a naturalist rhythm that echoes the ebb and flow of the tides, with their waves breaking over Lambedusa's minimally-lit shoreline.
A striking look at the European refugee crisis whose fly-on-the-wall directing approach lets it build a revealing portrait of two contrasting realities. Full review on filmotrope. com
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