To me "La fine del Mare" was one of the few films at the Rotterdam Festival, where you had the feeling you were actually watching cinema, and not some pushed up TV-drama with supposed to be "dogma" camera. I found it quite pleasing that the director and the screenwriters, have avoided to speak out everything, and have trusted the spectators capability to think themselves. And it was a relief to get off the ordinary protagonist - identification - train. Today you often get the impression that a large part of the films could have been made by the same person, all script doctoring/ developing turning every idea into the same stew and leaving little space for any personal visions. Of course the film, like everyone, has a few flaws, but what's more important, the filmmakers are trying to create modern myths, and they do indeed succeed.
Review of La fine del mare
