The Golden Door details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo, Federica De Cola, Isabella Ragonese, Vincent Schiavelli |
| Director: | Emanuele Crialese |
| Genres: | Drama, World Cinema - Italian |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Name | Discs | |
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The Golden Door |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 53 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 29 Oct 2007 |
| Main languages: | Italian |
| Subtitles: | English |
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By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLMA historical drama about a group of Sicilians who emigrate to America
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how did anyone make it to america?
By valkyrie (25 reviews) from kent england , 19 Sep 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
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.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(68)A Great Account of Migration
By Cato (705 reviews) from Lydbury North , 18 Jul 2012Being very interested in the subject of the Italian migration to America, I found this film extremely interesting. It was extremely absorbing, even the long opening scenes of life in the Sicilian hills were well researched and sensitively handled. The research which went into the film was deep, the acting marvellous, particularly from the leads, and I found the whole enterprise movingly directed, Obviously not everyone's cup of tea, but we loved it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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never really gets going
By a customer , 08 Aug 2011This film had a promising and intriguing start, but then did not really go anywhere. It is quite a long film, but not as long as it seems. Charlotte Gainsbourg has dyed her hair red for some reason, and it just looks badly done. I absolutely could not work out why she had done this, as it seems in no way important to the plot, and it does not suit her at all. Perhaps this film could have been a bit more interesting if her character was developed a bit, but it was not. In fact, nothing was really developed at all, so when the final credits rolled, I found myself thinking what was the point of that?- Was this review helpful to you?
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the golden door
By noseyrosie (8 reviews) from Mirfield , 11 Mar 2011this film was not very interesting was long drawn out was ok if you want to watch two men climeing over rocks and it lost the plot- Was this review helpful to you?
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The Golden Door
By fromoutoftheblue (23 reviews) from london , 19 Nov 2010THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide
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Expressionist Exodus
By Stephen from North Cornelly, South Wales , 04 Sep 2010Although promising a grand sweep, a historical setting and the deep themes explored against a backdrop of the Italian migration to New York, this is essentially an expressionist film played out on the basis of a series of head and shoulders shots which occasionally pan out slightly to represent the much bigger picture of what is supposed to be going on.
It seems at times, balletic - rather than operatic - and the dream sequences which are interposed between the narrative seems to reinforce this ambition.
The central characters - Charlotte Gainsbourg and Vincenzo Amato - nearly, but not quite, have the show stolen from them by Aurora Quattrocchi otherwise, I’m not sure that this one gets comfortably out of third gear.- Was this review helpful to you?
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