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.
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05/25/07
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Golden Door (2007)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:59
Rotten:24
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Slow-moving but ultimately rewarding, Golden Door is a profound drama with scenes of fantastical magical realism, lively humor, and stunning images.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release:May 25, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $948,809
Synopsis: Set in 1913, GOLDEN DOOR begins in a treacherous, barren, and rocky area of the Sicilian countryside. On advice from a stranger, a widowed father named Salvatore Mancuso (Vincenzo Amato) decides to... [More]
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Reviews for Golden Door
Top CriticA defiantly idiosyncratic film that summons the spirits of great Italian directors long past.
05/10/07
Top CriticItalian director Emanuele Crialese has infused the age-old plot with dazzling visual style, dollops of magical realism and profound emotional truth that infuse what we think we know with new verve and resonance.
06/14/07
The details of this chaotic odyssey to the New World are so intricately and poignantly handled that throughout a voice in your head insists: this is how it must have been.
06/29/07
Tired, poor journey to Golden Door.
06/02/07
It remains an extraordinarily strong, fascinating look at the genesis of the traditional immigrant tale, not the idealized finale.
06/14/07
[A] beautiful, spacey, trans-oceanic odyssey.
06/01/07
Top CriticAs close as the movies come to poetry.
06/21/07
A STRIKINGLY shot tale of Sicilian villagers seeking a better life in America, Golden Door is so minimalist, it's practically a silent film.
06/15/07
Top CriticWriter/director Emanuel Crialese gives his atmospheric film a look of daguerreotype authenticity.
06/21/07
Emanuele Crialese's wondrous Nuovomondo (Golden Door) recalls America's erstwhile promise with a mix of exhilaration and delicacy, peppered with judicious insight.
06/24/07
The rhythms of the movie are slow and daydreamy, but [director] Crialese delights in breaking up the realism with his protagonist’s mystical -- almost madcap -- visions of the New World’s abbondanza.
06/29/07
Top CriticThe film is touching, imaginative and makes the best of its cash through a minimalist skill that shows Crialese to be a genuinely original director.
06/29/07
[Director] Crialese's talent for poetic illusion, and for finding the general within the microcosm, is reminiscent of Steven Spielberg.
07/19/07
Hung up on the nature of procedure, the film transpires in very distinct, hellish parts, as if moving slowly along the links of a great and heavy metal chain.
05/06/07
The whole picture, real and surreal, is hauntingly beautiful.
07/08/07
The journey to America by an Italian peasant and his family, conveying their yearning for a new life in scenes of magical realism.
01/10/08
The folkloric tone that seemed so pretentious in [Respiro] is powerfully effective here.
06/15/07
Making the most of an evidently limited budget, Crialese makes the Promised Land seem as poignantly out of reach to us as it is to his tragic characters.
06/29/07
Golden Door resounds with moments of pure cinema seldom encountered anymore, where sound and image combine to create a lyricism that transcends the story
05/24/07
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