Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Vincent Schiavelli
Presented by Martin Scorsese, "Golden Door" is a modern fable from director Emanuele Crialese that captures the spirit of the immigrant experience as one family sheds the comfort of the Old World for ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 8, 2008
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Flixster Reviews (426)
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March 17, 2009''We have to arrive in America looking like princes!''
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily.
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Lucy Reed
The Golden Door is a telling and rendition of a Sicilian family's journey from the Italy to
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June 15, 2009A fascinating look at what it was like to immigrate to the U.S. through Ellis Island told with exquisite cinematography.
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December 10, 2008Somptuously directed, it has great ambition, sadly is either too long or too slow and in that way, it never finds his rythm.
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October 12, 2008Writer-director Emanuele Crialese (Respiro (2002), Once We Were Strangers (1997)) sets his tale of immigrants' dreams in Sicily at the beginning of the 20th century - the (at times brutal) immigrant experience is portrayed, stretching from Salvatore's dirt-poor Sicilian hamlet to...( read more)
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July 5, 2008Good intentions are not enough to make an interesting venture... slow-paced and unbearably boring...
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March 25, 2008I know it had its slow parts, but I loved this film because it gave a sense of what it was like to be an immigrant coming through Ellis Island from the old country.
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February 28, 2008Loved it!!! Gorgeous cinema with impeccable characters. Filmmaking as Art.
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February 5, 2008A slow, elegant story of the immigrant experience from Sicily to America, with a little magic mixed in. Great visuals and performances throughout, really gives a sense of the long, arduous, cramped and sometimes horrific conditions that immigrants endured.
Critic Reviews
June 29, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
June 27, 2007
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
[Director] Crialese ends his film on an exquisite note of fantasy: an indelible image of hope and good fortune. His vision is unique; his film, strange and lovely. full review
June 21, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Writer/director Emanuel Crialese gives his atmospheric film a look of daguerreotype authenticity. full review
June 15, 2007
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Unfolding like a gorgeous coffee-table book of photographs, Emanuele Crialese's film Golden Door is as lovely to look at as it is dramatically inert. full review
June 15, 2007
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
There's an old Zen saying, 'It's the journey, not the destination.' The Golden Door offers an extraordinary journey of its own. full review
May 25, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
What makes Mr. Crialese's telling unusual, apart from the gorgeousness of his wide-screen compositions, is that his emphasis is on departure and transition, rather than arrival.
May 24, 2007
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
After countless films in which immigration plays a central role you'd think the canon was essentially complete. Yet this visionary work adds to it by combining harsh realities with magic-realist fanta... full review
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