
Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.... (Full plot summary below)
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Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.
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| The New York TimesStephen HoldenThis calm, hardheaded film never sacrifices its toughness for a swooning, misty-eyed moment of hope. |
| The Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaThough realized with great empathy and tact, the film fails to convey the catastrophic extent of the situation it addresses by keeping its narrative too tightly focused. |
| 4:3Jeremy ElphickThere are few films that navigate the refugee experience in recent years that operate with the same attention to detail. |
| El UniversalJorge Ayala BlancoA destabilizing operation operates raw, despite its latent violence as a continuum in which images, sequences and ellipses occur fluidly, deftly staggered, linked, linked, without ever splicing. [Full review in Spanish] |
| IndiewireEric KohnIt renders a global crisis in strikingly intimate terms. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe unselfconscious naturalness of the nonprofessional cast yields no shortage of sharply observed moments. |
| The GuardianJordan HoffmanIf a movie as rich and understanding as Mediterranea suddenly appeared every time we read about a difficult issue in the paper, maybe all of the world’s problems could be solved. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThere’s a specificity to Mediterranea that at times makes it feel like an actual documentary. |
| Village VoiceNick SchagerThe film proves a piercing character study whose narrow view frustrates complete empathy. |
| RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireWhere “Black Lives Matter” has become a rallying cry in the U.S., Jonas Carpignano’s sharply crafted Mediterranea voices a counterpart for African immigrants in southern Italy: “Stop shooting blacks!” |