Luzzu's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
Sun-drenched 'Luzzu' is an unaffected triumph with a simmering power, the type of deceivingly familiar film that helps us sail into a place and a lifestyle most of us ignore but that are made vividly compelling in the hand of a new storyteller with classically honed sensibilities.
Slashfilm
It feels like the beginnings of the Greek tragedy that had been telegraphed from the beginning: the Sisyphean image of a man holding back the flood of change with a rickety wooden boat.
Roger Ebert
Authenticity can't be faked. This seems like an oversimplified or too-obvious statement, perhaps, but a film like 'Luzzu' shows the truth of it [...].
Cineuropa
Camilleri reveals his talent with a subtle and unfamiliar debut feature film which tells an empathic, realist and informative tale of a young fisherman pushed to his limits.
La Razón
It's a tough, excellent feature debut full of verismo, emotion and nostalgia [...].
New York Times
Malta?s views are arresting, but the images Camilleri chooses would never be found in a travel brochure. In his subtle, vérité approach, he captures something special ? not one man?s crisis, but a community?s culture.
Fotogramas
An elegy like the one that Alexander Mackendrick sang in 'The Maggie' (1954) to a dilapidated barge. At all times, a pleasant neorealist air blows through the four sides of 'Luzzu' [...].
Screen Daily
It is compelling enough as both a character study and a persuasive account of a threatened way of life to be of commercial interest.
Cinemanía
Its nihilistic message contrasts with the dazzling blues that overflow the shots, far removed, however, from the idyllic advertising postcard. Camilleri finds beauty in artisanal fishing nets [....].
Le Monde
Despite its clumsiness, 'Luzzu' touches with its sincerity and its documentary approach.