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Fire at Sea
Directed by
Gianfranco Rosi
2016
1h 54m
Documentary
6.7
95%
66%
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Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
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Cast of Fire at Sea
Samuele Pucillo
Himself
Mattias Cucina
Himself
Samuele Caruana
Himself
Pietro Bartolo
Himself
Giuseppe Fragapane
Himself
Francesco Paterna
Himself
Francesco Mannino
Himself
Maria Signorello
Herself
Gianfranco Rosi
Director / Writer / Producer
Donatella Palermo
Producer
Paolo Del Brocco
Producer
Fire at Sea Ratings & Reviews
The Atlantic
Anna Diamond
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.
Willamette Week
Lauren Terry
It's a stirring testament to humanity when the patient voice of the marine patrol addresses the panicked refugees on their boat's radio.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
Who needs voiceovers when a director's camera has this much to say?
Detroit News
Tom Long
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.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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?
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Though conceived as a humanitarian statement, the movie wouldn't be as memorable or challenging without its quotidian aspect.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
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.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
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.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Fire at Sea is a shining example of journalism fueled by outrage and shaped by free-ranging curiosity.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
What "Fire at Sea" appears to be and what it is are not the same thing, and it's that difference that makes it a masterful documentary.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Rosi films the migrants empathetically but sentimentally; he depicts helicopters and ships with bombastic grandeur. What's more, half the movie has nothing to do with migrants ...
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
As laudable as the movie is, it does not quite achieve greatness. That's the fault of both its indirectness and its obviousness.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
"Fire at Sea" occupies your consciousness like a nightmare, and yet somehow you don't want it to end.
Village Voice
Bilge Ebiri
How do you reconcile trauma like this with the easy rhythms of ordinary life? You don't, Rosi's film tells us, and to do so would be obscene.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Here is an island. Things happen on and near that island. Some of those things are heartbreaking. Others are banal. The end.
Film Comment Magazine
Stuart Klawans
Constructed as much as reported, Fire at Sea is a beautiful artifact presented for your contemplation. It is also an act of conscience. And it is harrowing.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Fire at Sea initiates a narrative that probes the fundamental gap between wanting to help and actually being able to do so.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
Despite all the craft and care it seems just slightly deflating that "Fire at Sea" can elicit a relatively complacent reaction when it is such a thoughtful, deeply-felt and exquisitely observed film, set right in the eye of a raging storm.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Where Rosi's previous work has been accused of offering scattershot portraits of disparate characters, this one feels more focused in its overall edit, while open enough to encourage personal reactions.
The Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
Where journalism leaves off, Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) begins. It takes a unique documentary filmmaker like Gianfranco Rosi to capture the drama through the periscope of his camera focused on the small Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
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