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The documentary captures life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis. The main characters are a twelve-year-old boy from a local fishing family and a doctor who treats the migrants on their arrival.

Genre:

Documentary

Actors:

Samuele Pucillo, Pietro Bartolo, Samuele Caruana, Maria Costa, Maria Signorello, Mattias Cucina, Francesco Paterna, Giuseppe Fragapane, Francesco Mannino

Director:

Gianfranco Rosi

Country:

Italy, France

Release:

2016

IMDb:

6.7

Quality:

Duration:

114 min

Chicago Reader

Though conceived as a humanitarian statement, the movie wouldn't be as memorable or challenging without its quotidian aspect.

December 15, 2016

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Butaca Ancha

A reflexive and hard critic that becomes a necessary instrument to show the prevailing level of dehumanization in society. [Full review in Spanish]

January 18, 2017

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El Universal

A documentary structured as a warm and avant-garde album of glittering images to slow political-poetic fire. [Full review in Spanish]

February 10, 2017

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Detroit News

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

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Chilango.com

A current, unmissable and noisy film, not because of what you will hear, but because of its outrageous repercussions, that maybe someday they will reach the right ears. [Full review in Spanish]

January 18, 2017

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Wall Street Journal

Fire at Sea is a shining example of journalism fueled by outrage and shaped by free-ranging curiosity.

October 27, 2016

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Combustible Celluloid

The end result is transporting, but also moving; it's a wake-up call, asking us to think about how much attention we really pay to what's around us, and - perhaps more importantly - what to do about it?

January 19, 2017

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San Francisco Chronicle

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 07, 2016

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Christian Science Monitor

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

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Ibero 90.9

Demolishing and poetic, hard and intelligent. Rosi's work moves away from sentimentalism and obvious narrative resources to build a free and unconventional documentary. [Full review in Spanish]

January 18, 2017

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Willamette Week

It's a stirring testament to humanity when the patient voice of the marine patrol addresses the panicked refugees on their boat's radio.

February 08, 2017

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San Diego Reader

Who needs voiceovers when a director's camera has this much to say?

February 03, 2017

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