Trivia:
Italy's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.
User Review
Superior Italian Boat People piece.
Rating:
A remarkable film from a group of busy Italian film makers whose output
is largely unknown in the English speaking world, though the director's
RESPIRO did get some sub-titled screening. This one deserves the Oscar
it's been put up for.
Hardships among Sicilian fishermen (oh oh) who become involved with I
clandestini - illegal immigrants (Oh Oh!) but this one has a sharper
edge than the do gooder-films that usually make their way into art
theatres. The night time white water advancing on the small boat has
genuine menace and the again admirable Finocchiaro turning on the black
woman they saved, when pregnant and abandoned by her fellow escapees,
is all the more effective because it's unfamiliar. The film is not
without compassion but underlays it with a new realism.
Cast, crisp camera-work, sunny scenes of ocean front life, the
spectacle of half clothed tourist merry makers, whose relation with the
locals is as dodgy as that of the Africans, all add to the impact of an
involving and accomplished production.
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