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2006 Certificate PG
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At the start of the 20th-century, Salvatore (Vincenzo Amato), a poor Sicilian farmer, emigrates to US. En route, he meets Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a shady character in need of a spouse to help her get through Ellis Island and into the promised land. Read more

Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa
Director Emanuele Crialese
Genres Drama, World Cinema

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At the start of the 20th-century, Salvatore (Vincenzo Amato), a poor Sicilian farmer, emigrates to US. En route, he meets Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a shady character in need of a spouse to help her get through Ellis Island and into the promised land.

Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo, Federica De Cola, Isabella Ragonese, Vincent Schiavelli
Director Emanuele Crialese
Studio OPTIMUM
Run time DVD: 1 hr 53 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Drama, World Cinema
Language DVD: Italian
Subtitles DVD: English
Released DVD: 29 Oct 2007
Production year: 2006
Format DVD

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    The poster for this moving and poetic Italian film about Sicilian immigrants coming to America at the turn of the... read more on Time Out

    • Dave Calhoun, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 73 out of 79 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    how did anyone make it to america?

    This is a beautiful, whimsical film which follows the seemingly interminable journey of a family of sicilian peasants from the wild hillsides of their homeland to the gates of Ellis island, and the american dream in all its sordid reality. 'Who do you think you are?' protests la nonna - an old healer woman and grandmother 'do you think you are god, to decide whether we are good enough or not to come into this new world of yours?'

    While their dreams of giant vegetables, animals and fruit come crashing down around them, the would-be immigrants maintain a quiet dignity, to reach a world where things might just be better than what they left behind.

    The photography is stunning, the soundtrack impeccable, and the gentle love story which runs lightly through is quite magical.

    See it and be moved.

      • valkyrie from kent england
      • Posted 19 Sep 2007 23:48

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    Rated - 1 star

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    I was looking forward to watching this film but I was greatly disappointed. The story was very slow getting going and throughout the film I was waiting for it to get going but it never did!! The 'dreams' were weird and ridicilous and overall I would strongly recommend that you don't bother watching it.

      • A customer from UK
      • Posted 23 Jun 2008 15:22

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    • 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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      • At the start of the 20th-century, Salvatore (Vincenzo Amato), a poor Sicilian farmer, emigrates to US. En route, he meets Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a shady character in need of a spouse to help ...