The ONLY persons who are gonna watch this movie is the family and friends of the producers, actors and the cast. The scenes that follow cut between the refugee boat, where Alex (Mark Mifsud), the grumpy Red Cross doctor, has been forced to stay aboard to care for a young pregnant woman, and the fishermen, who are forced to venture further and further from home in their search for the elusive tuna.
A couple of plot twists are predictable but so is life at times, and you can just about accept the speed with which Alex comes round to the refugees' point of view, strongly influenced by his growing attraction to their feisty interpreter. As for the fishermen's story, the sense of inevitability which shadows their voyage simply underlines its tragedy.
The film was Malta's entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category at this year's Academy Awards – the first that Malta has ever submitted to the Oscars. And you can see why it felt moved to do so.
A couple of plot twists are predictable but so is life at times, and you can just about accept the speed with which Alex comes round to the refugees' point of view, strongly influenced by his growing attraction to their feisty interpreter. As for the fishermen's story, the sense of inevitability which shadows their voyage simply underlines its tragedy.
The film was Malta's entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category at this year's Academy Awards – the first that Malta has ever submitted to the Oscars. And you can see why it felt moved to do so.