Luzzu
- 2021
- 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
1.9K
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A man risks everything to provide for his wife and newborn son by entering Malta's black-market fishing industry.A man risks everything to provide for his wife and newborn son by entering Malta's black-market fishing industry.A man risks everything to provide for his wife and newborn son by entering Malta's black-market fishing industry.
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- 5 wins & 13 nominations
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- TriviaOfficial submission of Malta for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.
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"Luzzu" is a sensitive film, full of allegory, and a stupendous and extraordinary performance by Jesmark Scicluna as Jesmark, a many-generation Maltese fisherman who struggles to choose between his passion for the sea and his family in the land. The director manages to draw so much reality and emotions from both Jesmark Scicluna and Filip Sertic that their passion for fishing is very clear. The film is spectacular in showing the simplicity of fishermen against the underground fishing black market, the contradictions between tradition or falling into the unfair capitalist world, going after their dreams ("...a fish stays in a bowl never grows...' or family stability.
As one reviewer stated so well: "It's that kind of movies that say so much by saying almost nothing.".
As one reviewer stated so well: "It's that kind of movies that say so much by saying almost nothing.".
I also want to point out that the plot of this movie serves much to the current big film industry: How is it possible that a movie like this or the performance of the ensemble cast is ignored by the major award competitions????? Yeah!!!! Small and beautifully fish fighting against big sharks.
As one reviewer stated so well: "It's that kind of movies that say so much by saying almost nothing.".
As one reviewer stated so well: "It's that kind of movies that say so much by saying almost nothing.".
I also want to point out that the plot of this movie serves much to the current big film industry: How is it possible that a movie like this or the performance of the ensemble cast is ignored by the major award competitions????? Yeah!!!! Small and beautifully fish fighting against big sharks.
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- Also known as
- Chiếc Thuyền Luzzu
- Filming locations
- Marsaxlokk, Malta(location)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $39,948
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,394
- Oct 17, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $51,557
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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