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Respiro Details

2002

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Grazia, wife and mother, lives in the close knit community of South-West Sicily. She has an unconventional attitude which is not accepted by the village elders. It is decided that Grazia is in need of medical help and she is therefore sent away to the city... Read more

Starring	Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Veronica D'Agostino, Filippo Pucillo
Director	Emanuelle Crialese
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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Respiro

Starring	Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Veronica D'Agostino, Filippo Pucillo
Director	Emanuelle Crialese
Studio	PALISADES TARTAN
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Italian
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2002 To Rent: DVD: 26 Jan 2004

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- A vivid, wispy missive from a strange land that turns out to be the small fishing island of Lampedusa, south of Sicily,... read more on Time Out
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  simple yet beautiful
  
  This is a beautiful film with fantastic scenery. It is a very simple story, very well shot and gently paced. It makes you feel like you are on the beach ... read more »
  
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  Simply the best?
  
  A remarkable piece of film-making, visually breathtaking and emotionally uplifting.
  
  The inhabitants of a small fishing community in a village called ... read more »
  
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  - 18 May 2011 at 23:22
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  A STRANGE STORY
  
  The storyline commences very slowly and builds at a similar speed. Excruciating may be too strong a word, but, a comprehensive knowledge of Sicily, it's ... read more »
  
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  Leaves you breathless...
  
  The music and actually the silence make this film an emotionally moving one. I bought a copy and watched it several times - I always see something new. What I ... read more »
  
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Golden Door
- 27 Jun 2007
Released as 'Nuovomundo' in its native Italy - 'The New World' is taken, right? - Golden Door is the second film to reach these shores by Emanuele Crialese, the writer-director of Respiro. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, it's a film about a family of illiterate Sicilian peasants coming to America, spurred on by doctored photographs of money growing on trees and chickens the size of donkeys. They find passage on a great steam ship. Men and women are immediately separated, and such is... Read more
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  Grazia, wife and mother, lives in the close knit community of South-West Sicily. She has an unconventional attitude which is not accepted by the village elders. It is decided that Grazia is in need of medical help and she is therefore sent away to the city......