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Fire in the Sea

It is not a temporary eruption or crisis that will be imminently solved within the conventional news cycle.

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There is an enigmatic pageant of scenes: The islanders are not shown objecting to the migrants, or welcoming them, or discussing what to do about them. I concede that this is arguably a flaw, an artefactual silence that drains the situation of its political reality. But it shows that this is a situation that Lampedusa has become used to over decades. Samuele himself is a compelling figure.

There is one very simple edit Rosi contrives, showing him taking aim with his catapult and then just cutting to his face in closeup, frowning with concentration: In its quiet way, it is sensational.

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Has he somehow absorbed the spores of world history? Is his artless manner a way of suggesting that life will go on, with or without compassion or solutions? Fire at Sea is masterly film-making.

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Show 25 25 50 All. Olivia Exarchakou, 19, is a student in central Athens. Two of her family friends have died in the fires.


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She didn't have time to get out of her house because of the speed at which the fire spread. A thick smog hangs over Athens and supermarkets are giving out truck loads of water. Reports here said roads were jammed and that many people ran to the beach to try and out-run the fire. I hear that they have found a mother dead with her child in her arms. Are you in the area? How have you been affected by the wildfires?

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