LUZZU TBC
★★★★☆ OUT 13 MAY CINEMAS
Hot on the heels comes another story of fishing folk, one of whom (persuasively played by actual Maltese fisherman Jesmark Scicluna) is struggling to keep both his head and his prized ‘luzzu’, a small open fishing boat, above water. A dodgy black-market operation could keep that worn-down wooden boat from sinking and help him care for his ailing infant son… but at what price to his soul? Alex Camilleri’s affecting and relevant slice of Mediterranean neo-realism movingly portrays a traditional way of life that’s being constricted to extinction by EU red tape.
