Rotten
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 ...
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fire at Sea
More than 17,000 people were reported to have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in the last 15 years...
2016 · 1h 54m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Gianfranco Rosi
Overview
Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
As laudable as the movie is, it does not quite achieve greatness. That's the fault of both its indirectness and its obviousness.
Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
Fresh
Harrowing, heartbreaking and humane ...
Mark Medley, Globe and Mail
Fresh
"Fire at Sea" occupies your consciousness like a nightmare, and yet somehow you don't want it to end.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Fresh
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.
Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice
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