It is a pitiful and wretched sight to witness Maltese efforts at the art of film-making. Even watching a trailer for a Maltese ‘film’ is seriously depressing.

How anyone with even a modicum of knowledge of European and American films could ever pass a Maltese film fit for muster is unimaginable to me.

I have had the misfortune of viewing several Maltese films, and they have all left me feeling cheated.

While their script is not always sub-par, everything else screams shoddy workmanship, starting from some violently bad casting of actors with all the acting talent of headless Teletubbies, all the way to the inelegant Maltese language and to the really ugly Maltese intonation of the British tongue.

Strident, stiff and inadvertently funny over-acting do not help matters either, and the viewer is left with the vague notion of having been taken for a ride.

Lack of funds is not even a valid excuse for such incompetence, because many fine and worthy international films have been directed on a meagre budget.

How anyone who has ever admired the works of Fellini, Kubrick, Lynch or Visconti could ever look at a Maltese movie with anything but snorting and dismissive disdain will always remain a mystery to me.

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