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  • 2016
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2016
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 54 m

Summary 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...

Directed By: Gianfranco Rosi

Written By: Carla Cattani, Gianfranco Rosi

  • 2016
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2016
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 54 m

Fire at Sea

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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87
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 19 User Ratings
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Summary 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...

Directed By: Gianfranco Rosi

Written By: Carla Cattani, Gianfranco Rosi

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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95% Positive
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Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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95% Positive
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5% Mixed
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100
Dec 8, 2016
A mesmerizing documentary.
By David Lewis FULL REVIEW
100
Oct 20, 2016
Fire at Sea occupies your consciousness like a nightmare, and yet somehow you don’t want it to end.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 19 User Ratings
7.0
63% Positive
12 Ratings
26% Mixed
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11% Negative
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26% Mixed
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11% Negative
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100
Jun 9, 2016
Rosi offers a simple, stark contrast between quiet moments of everyday life and tragedy as mass fleeing results in sunken boats, horrific injuries and death.
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90
Jun 8, 2016
[A] powerful, at times shocking but also intensely human documentary.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 9, 2016
The film's quietly angry plea is for compassion, understanding and more than one eye open on this modern horror.
By Dave Calhoun FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 8, 2016
Rosi has long been drawn to quiet lives, but has never been quite so successful in conveying the soulful qualities he sees in them to his audience — until now, using the oblique approach of Lampedusa’s residents to spotlight this growing international crisis, while using his young protagonist’s obliviousness to reflect and indict our own.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 8, 2016
While Rosi certainly manages to jolt the viewer out of complacency, his strategy towards this end is so ethically dubious as to border on repellent.
By Giovanni Marchini Camia FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Stemal Entertainment, 21 Unofilm, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Rai Cinema, Les Films d'Ici, Arte France Cinéma, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT)
Release Date Oct 21, 2016
Duration 1 h 54 m
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Website https://www.filmitalia.org/p.aspx?t=film&l=en&did=88875
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations

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