Nuovomondo
Directed by:
Emanuele CrialeseScreenplay:
Emanuele CrialeseCinematography:
Agnès GodardCast:
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo, Federica De Cola, Isabella Ragonese, Ernesto Mahieux, Vincent Schiavelli (more)VOD (2)
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From a desolate corner of Sicily, the Mancuso family, alongside hundreds of their countrymen, embark on a journey across time and vast space, impelled by pictures of a land dreamed of but never seen - an earthly paradise where fruits grow perfect and huge, and money falls from the trees. The New World, America. But not all are destined to enter the gates of Heaven. (official distributor synopsis)
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The Golden Door is a slow-moving film about Italian emigrants on their way to America: the decision to leave their
homeland and their departure from Sicily, the journey, admission procedures on New York’s Ellis Island (only indoor,
without a look at New York, due to budgetary reasons, I suspect). It is a film made up of scenes that would have been
left out of another movie in order to get to the point faster. Here, however, the journey is the point. The film’s goal is
not to impress, but only to show what is usually neglected, in a distinctive way without milking the audience’s emotions,
but sometimes with a subtle humor. I’m giving the fourth star for originality and visual aesthetics.
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