A hardworking fisherman with a wife and newborn faces a risky and life-altering decision: repair his leaky traditional fishing boat or...
A hardworking fisherman with a wife and newborn faces a risky and life-altering decision: repair his leaky traditional fishing boat or accept an EU payout and enter the sinister black-market operation decimating the Mediterranean fish population.
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98 %60 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
78 %37 reviewsAudience score rating
"Naturalistic and a bit on-the-nose in spots, the film is also a moving tale of real-world strife..."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Alex Camilleri's locally made vérité tale discovers a knockout performance in a real-life fisherman from Malta."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"The impressive feature debut from... Camilleri manages to be both self-contained, in its depiction of an embattled community, but also unexpectedly far-reaching in its themes."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"The film is scripted dramatic fiction, but no less true for that."
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Film Threat
Film Threat"Heartbreaking, but clear-eyed..."
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Slash Film
Slash Film"An affecting neorealist drama..."
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Variety
Variety"In his subtle, vérité approach, (Camilleri) captures something special — not one man’s crisis, but a community’s culture."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"(A) wonderful debut..."
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Paste
Paste"Luzzu is embedded in a quickly-vanishing world, and director Alex Camilleri approaches it with sensitivity, knowing that authenticity is crucial to how the film operates."
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.com"A stirringly nuanced and dazzlingly shot humanistic drama..."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Fresh, if not revolutionary."
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Slant Magazine
Slant MagazineLuzzu | Details
Award winner- Special Jury Award for Acting at Sundance Film Festival 2021.
- Rating
- 15, strong language
- Runtime
- 95
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Malta
