Luzzo

[Available Jan. 14 via streaming on MUBI.] Striking cinematography highlights Alex Camilleri's award-winning, somber, touching, realistic, 95-minute film in which a longtime, desperate Maltese fisherman (Jesmark Scicluna) struggles to care for his waitress girlfriend (Michela Farrugia) and newborn son who needs medical intervention while dealing with a changing industry, fewer fish to catch, increasing government regulations and restrictions, competitors, and illegal shenanigans and trying to decide whether to decommission his multigenerational, colorful fishing boat to take a government buyout or to join shady criminals in the black-market fishing trade to earn money to help his family.
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