Rather like a sociological document narrated in a flamboyantly rhapsodic visual style...more affected than affecting.
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06/13/07
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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
All too successful in evoking the simple-mindedness of its immigrant naifs and the interminability of the Atlantic passage.
06/11/07
Tired, poor journey to Golden Door.
06/02/07
Can someone please call for a moratorium on gratuitous magical realism?
06/02/07
It excels at documenting the humiliating (and sometimes terrifying) physical and mental tests that face these weary travelers.
06/02/07
[A] beautiful, spacey, trans-oceanic odyssey.
06/01/07
Top Critic[A] draggy Italian epic that's big on production values but skimpy on inspiration.
05/31/07
An enlightening, historically accurate look at what the ancestors of many Americans went through. At a time when another kind of immigration debate rages, it's also an important reminder of where many of us 'Americans' came from.
05/25/07
Beautifully made but simple-minded Oscar bait, a film guaranteed to offend no one and to attract a large contingent fans who will love it for the nobility of its intentions and the earnestness of its performances.
05/25/07
A modest film, both in its aims and the emotions it solicits.
05/25/07
Top CriticThe acting is superb, especially the always alluring Charlotte Gainsbourg as a mysterious Englishwoman taking the ship to America. Agnes Godard's lensing is painterly, and Crialese's direction is seamless.
05/25/07
The movie never really comes alive, and [director] Crialese's coyness with Lucy's character is more frustrating than mysterious.
05/25/07
Top CriticWhat 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.
05/25/07
Top CriticEmanuele Crialese makes the star of his new film his director of photography, Agnes Godard.
05/25/07
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
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 fantasies.
05/24/07
Top CriticIt's easier to respect Crialese's accomplishments than understand his characters.
05/24/07
A powerful look at the quirks of human nature, weaving in a subtle but overwhelmingly powerful political message.
05/23/07
Despite a few welcome bits of whimsy, Door feels as long as a transatlantic voyage.
05/23/07
Emanuele Crialese's poetic tale of emigration at the turn of the 20th century follows an illiterate Sicilian farmer (Vincenzo Amato) and his family who, after seeing doctored photographs of money growing on trees, set their sights on America.
05/23/07
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