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When the wife of fisherman Thomas Randazza tries to get him to take a holiday and suggests a cruise, he at first thinks she's lost her marbles. After all, this 'romantic' ideal - often unattainable, and dreamed up to appeal peculiarly to landlubbers - hardly seems designed for Randazza. Nevertheless, it turns out to be one of his best holidays. Brief, simple, but beautiful little portraits introduce us to a number of professional fishermen who are only too happy to recount for the camera the vicissitudes of their lives at sea. Comedy and catastrophe alternate in quick succession. This winning little group of seamen could effortlessly fill evening with their talk, had the video-maker not adhered to a policy of fleeting vignettes of about thirty seconds each - a policy which, paradoxically enough, has become the strength of this piece.
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Frank van Rossum
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Camera and production: Joan Logue, Editing: Joan Logue, Doug Beers, Sound: Judith Brown
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