Review of Fire at Sea (2016) by Kidbresson — 08 Dec 2016

Resplendent, carefully crafted shots make a subject that is difficult to think about somewhat easier to watch. As a documentary without interviews, an explicit narrative, or even much of a story arc, this film somehow manages to avoid fitting into any traditional genre without coming off as unclear about its motives or once meandering in its method.

The general criticism that it presents the inhabitants of the island and the refugees in artificial isolation from one another has some merit, but I think it let the film more sharply contrast the comfortable world that most of us live in and the extreme hardships which we generally prefer to ignore, regardless of how close to our own lives this other worlds actually exists.