Italian director Gianfranco Rosi creates an unsentimental documentary approximately the carnage and despair as Lampedusans struggle to deal with desperate refugeesIn 2013 Gianfranco Rosi won the Golden Lion at Venice with Sacro GRA,a lyrical documentary approximately – of all things the buzz of activity around Rome’s ring-road, the Grande Raccordo Anulare. Now Rosi has put his quiet observational skills and judicious sense of shot choice to work on a far more hot-button topic: the Sicilian island of Lampedusa as it battles to contain the flood of migrants attempting the perilous crossing from north Africa in horrifically overcrowded boats. Related: Sacro GRA review – a beguiling documentary prose-poem to Rome Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com