Cinema 7 Years Ago October 21, 2016 us

Fire at Sea Cinema Release Date

The movie Fire at Sea is already released on Cinema in the USA and UK.

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Samuele is twelve and lives on an island in the Mediterranean, far away from the mainland. Like all boys of his age he does not always enjoy going to school. He would much rather climb the rocks by the shore, play with his slingshot or mooch about the port. But his home is not like other islands. For years, it has been the destination of men, women and children trying to make the crossing from Africa in boats that are far too small and decrepit. The island is Lampedusa which has become a metaphor for the flight of refugees to Europe, the hopes, hardship and fate of hundreds of thousands of emigrants. These people long for peace, freedom and happiness and yet so often only their dead bodies are pulled out of the water. Thus, every day the inhabitants of Lampedusa are bearing witness to the greatest humanitarian tragedy of our times. Gianfranco Rosi's observations of everyday life bring us closer to this place that is as real as it is symbolic, and to the emotional world of some of its inhabitants who are exposed to a permanent state of emergency. At the same time his film, which is commentary-free, describes how, even in the smallest of places, two worlds barely touch.

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What do the critics say?

Based on 11 Fire at Sea Cinema reviews, Fire at Sea gets an average Cinema review score of 84. The score for all versions is 84 based on a total of 44 reviews.
5/5
www.theguardian.comCinema
In this stellar documentary, Gianfranco Rosi contrasts the lives of the desperate thousands landing on the shores of a Sicilian island with the everyday existence of the locals.
2560d ago
100/100
www.nytimes.comCinema
Fire at Sea occupies your consciousness like a nightmare, and yet somehow you don’t want it to end.
2560d ago
4/4
www.slantmagazine.comCinema
It initiates a narrative that probes the fundamental gap between wanting to help and actually being able to do so.
2560d ago
90/100
www.villagevoice.comCinema
There are two distinct movies in Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea , and you could say that somewhere in between them lies the real one.
2560d ago
90/100
www.wsj.comCinema
A stirring documentary about the migrant crisis plays out on a Sicilian island just 70 miles from North Africa.
2560d ago
80/100
www.hollywoodreporter.comCinema
Life on the Italian island of Lampedusa is shaken by waves of migrants in Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary.
2560d ago
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