Fire at Sea

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.

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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.

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Fire at Sea occupies your consciousness like a nightmare, and yet somehow you don’t want it to end.

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It initiates a narrative that probes the fundamental gap between wanting to help and actually being able to do so.

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It initiates a narrative that probes the fundamental gap between wanting to help and actually being able to do so.

2955d ago

Fire at Sea occupies your consciousness like a nightmare, and yet somehow you don’t want it to end.

2955d ago

Fire at Sea occupies your consciousness like a nightmare, and yet somehow you don’t want it to end.

2955d ago

It initiates a narrative that probes the fundamental gap between wanting to help and actually being able to do so.

2955d ago

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.

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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.

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A stirring documentary about the migrant crisis plays out on a Sicilian island just 70 miles from North Africa.

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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.

2955d ago

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.

2955d ago

A stirring documentary about the migrant crisis plays out on a Sicilian island just 70 miles from North Africa.

2955d ago

A stirring documentary about the migrant crisis plays out on a Sicilian island just 70 miles from North Africa.

2955d ago

A stirring documentary about the migrant crisis plays out on a Sicilian island just 70 miles from North Africa.

2955d ago

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.

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“Fire at Sea” is two films, either one of which is astonishing, powerful and human. But the difference in scale and perspective they are accorded means that taken together they present a one-sided and oddly passive conversation, one that does not ask us to step too far out of the place where our innate biases, as largely middle-class Western audiences, most likely lie anyway.

2955d ago

“Fire at Sea” is two films, either one of which is astonishing, powerful and human. But the difference in scale and perspective they are accorded means that taken together they present a one-sided and oddly passive conversation, one that does not ask us to step too far out of the place where our innate biases, as largely middle-class Western audiences, most likely lie anyway.

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Life on the Italian island of Lampedusa is shaken by waves of migrants in Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary.

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Life on the Italian island of Lampedusa is shaken by waves of migrants in Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary.

2955d ago

Life on the Italian island of Lampedusa is shaken by waves of migrants in Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary.

2955d ago

“Fire at Sea” is two films, either one of which is astonishing, powerful and human. But the difference in scale and perspective they are accorded means that taken together they present a one-sided and oddly passive conversation, one that does not ask us to step too far out of the place where our innate biases, as largely middle-class Western audiences, most likely lie anyway.

2955d ago

“Fire at Sea” is two films, either one of which is astonishing, powerful and human. But the difference in scale and perspective they are accorded means that taken together they present a one-sided and oddly passive conversation, one that does not ask us to step too far out of the place where our innate biases, as largely middle-class Western audiences, most likely lie anyway.

2955d ago

Life on the Italian island of Lampedusa is shaken by waves of migrants in Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary.

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Fire At Sea is two good documentaries that don’t go great together.

2955d ago

Fire At Sea is two good documentaries that don’t go great together.

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This Italian documentary is the official submission from that country for the next Academy Awards.

2955d ago

This Italian documentary is the official submission from that country for the next Academy Awards.

2955d ago

This Italian documentary is the official submission from that country for the next Academy Awards.

2955d ago

Fire At Sea is two good documentaries that don’t go great together.

2955d ago

This Italian documentary is the official submission from that country for the next Academy Awards.

2955d ago

Fire At Sea is two good documentaries that don’t go great together.

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In his quest to illuminate lives on the margins, Gianfranco Rosi visits the island of Lampedusa, where an ancient community plays witness to Africa's migration woes.

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In his quest to illuminate lives on the margins, Gianfranco Rosi visits the island of Lampedusa, where an ancient community plays witness to Africa's migration woes.

2955d ago

In his quest to illuminate lives on the margins, Gianfranco Rosi visits the island of Lampedusa, where an ancient community plays witness to Africa's migration woes.

2955d ago

In his quest to illuminate lives on the margins, Gianfranco Rosi visits the island of Lampedusa, where an ancient community plays witness to Africa's migration woes.

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When, in retrospect, you consider that the silly, inconsequential worries of a 12-year-old son of a fisherman – hardly someone emblematic of first-world privilege – were set up, possibly also scripted, to first inspire your laughter and then your self-disgust, it can’t help but make one question the filmmaker who would resort to such tactics, even with the best possible intentions.

2955d ago

When, in retrospect, you consider that the silly, inconsequential worries of a 12-year-old son of a fisherman – hardly someone emblematic of first-world privilege – were set up, possibly also scripted, to first inspire your laughter and then your self-disgust, it can’t help but make one question the filmmaker who would resort to such tactics, even with the best possible intentions.

2955d ago

When, in retrospect, you consider that the silly, inconsequential worries of a 12-year-old son of a fisherman – hardly someone emblematic of first-world privilege – were set up, possibly also scripted, to first inspire your laughter and then your self-disgust, it can’t help but make one question the filmmaker who would resort to such tactics, even with the best possible intentions.

2955d ago

When, in retrospect, you consider that the silly, inconsequential worries of a 12-year-old son of a fisherman – hardly someone emblematic of first-world privilege – were set up, possibly also scripted, to first inspire your laughter and then your self-disgust, it can’t help but make one question the filmmaker who would resort to such tactics, even with the best possible intentions.

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