The Golden Door (Nuovomondo)
Salvatore (Vincenzo Amato), a Sicilian villager, decides to leave his homeland and emigrate to America with his two sons, Angelo (Francesco Casisa) and Pietro (Filippo Pucillo). They and their fellow travelers (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Federica de Cola) face a challenging journey to what they believe is a land of milk and honey.
Carina Chocano writing for the LA Times in her review of The Golden Door "Nuovomondo":
It's this deceptively simple, never actually stated idea — the immigrant as fetus, waiting to emerge from the womb — that shapes the transplanted Italian director's third feature and informs its point of view. "The Golden Door" depicts the coming together of two worlds so different that they remain mysterious to each other even as they endeavor to make sense of each other with the help of professional interpreters. Ignorance, hope and imagination combine to create the strange, lyrical images that form in Salvatore's mind. As primitive as they are, they are no less misguided than the pseudo-scientific principles clung to by the doctors and researchers on Ellis Island, who mistake poverty and lack of education for genetic inferiority.
Release Date: May 2007
Run Time: 2 hr. 0 min.
Rating: PG-13
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo
Director: Emanuele Crialese
Genre: Period Film, Drama, Family Drama
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