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As very well explained in another review, this is a documentary on the social, economic and environmental effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. It ends up mirroring a real social hell of our greedy south-north commercial interchange. It is definitely not recommended for people suffering of some sort of depression, the images of how small innocent children need to survive is absolutely heart-breaking and it seems to take all the beauty of their bursting energy out forcing us (air-conditioned movie watchers) to face reality. There is also a good coverage of how perverse economic trades take place on detriment of the local people and in the benefit of some mysterious well off people skies away (in this case called Europe but the idea behind could be any power of rabid colonialism). There is no much environmental content though, the biodiversity loss that the predatory fish has on the Lake has as maximum '3 minutes of the whole movie. A well intentioned review of human misery.

A story of a distressed woman willing to die and sacrifice her own family rather than giving up some acres of land somewhere in the middle of nowhere merely to prove (to none) that she is not afraid.

Isabelle Huppert provides as always an excellent and charming neurotic character. Her character is brave and determined but the whole objective of her determination makes no sense at all.

Overall, the script is pretty poor. It is not certain if the movie wants to talk about female neurosis, ignorant expatriates behavior, social revolution, oppressed against colonizers, black and white or simply tell the story of how someone can get blind by her own ego.

Nice photography of landscapes, some minutes of enjoying to see Huppert acting and absolutely nothing more.

Beautiful movie about the story of how a silly lie to take advantage of others can end up in a distressful nightmare. The prominent men of a small Spanish town decide to fake a miracle to increase the affluence of tourists to this town, long time back famous for its spa. Brilliant treatment of a well spread social reality in Spain as it is the reduction of population of small rural villages. The lack of communication of the town is shown by a daily train that passes by making a lot of noise but without even decreasing slightly the speed. Great treatment of characters. On one side the prominent, arrogant, greedy men of town daring to do anything to get a little more of money and on the other side the innocent, forgotten and needy people daring to believe anything to make their life more liveable. Food for thoughts and feelings. Enjoy!