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Respiro
2002
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 |
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| Director | Emanuelle Crialese |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Respiro
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...
| 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 | DVD: 26 Jan 2004 Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
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The perils of insularity dawn upon a Sicilian fishing village in this touching tale of envy, ignorance and acceptance. Unable to cope with wife Valeria Golino's mood swings, Vincenzo Amato bows to communal pressure and agrees to have her committed to an institution on the mainland. However, Golino is protected in her beach hideaway by teenage son Francesco Casisa, who admires her free spirit even though he doesn't fully understand it. With Fabio Zamarion's camera contrasting the island of Lampedusa's natural beauty with its inhabitants' struggle to survive, director Emanuele Crialese's drama avoids rose-tinted realism by remaining focused on landscape and character.
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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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13 out of 13 people found this review helpful
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 watching something from a far. I assume that many of the younger members of the cast are non professionals but they are exellent and have real character. The plot is easy to follow and although there is no real conclusion at the end, I felt satisfied with how the director decided to close the film. A real pleasure to watch.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
excellent and refreshing
Good imaging, charming and spicy movie without any hollowood or american touch
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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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