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Golden Door, The
Miramax Films
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief graphic nudity
Starring
Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Vincenzo Amato,
Aurora Quattrocchi,
Francesco Casisa,
Filippo Pucillo,
Federica De Cola,
Isabella Ragonese,
and
Vincent Schiavelli
Golden Door is a classic tale of coming to America. It is a romantic fable that takes audiences into the very heart of this quintessential American experience -- as on man, driven by fantastic dreams and confronted with shocking realities, makes an epic odyssey in search of a brand new world. (Miramax Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Emanuele Crialese
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Emanuele Crialese
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 8, 2008
Theatrical: May 25, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
120 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Italy / Germany / France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Italian / English |
Also known as "Nuovomondo"; Nominated, Golden Lion, 2006 Venice Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Sicilian-born filmmaker Emanuele Crialese takes a huge leap forward from his pretty but simplistic "Respiro" with this highly original, startlingly beautiful and emotionally resonant film.

100
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It's so hypnotically breathtaking, you don't realize you're not breathing. By the final shot, you don't realize you're crying either, but there go the tears.

100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The familiar majesty of the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline is replaced with anticipation and imagination. The sense of hope and wonder is the greater for it, and the sense of promise glows from the screen.

88
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
Virtually everything Americans know about Ellis Island they've learned from the movies, and virtually all those movies were American. Golden Door offers the other side of the story, the one that ends at Ellis Island instead of beginning there.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The Golden Door feels, at points, like a silent film - a silent film with CinemaScope vistas and dazzling, saturated color.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Called "Nuovomondo" in its native Italy, it's bittersweet, neither as comic and sentimental as Charlie Chaplin's 1917 great silent comedy "The Immigrant," nor as cynical and epic as Elia Kazan's 1963 "America, America," but close to both.

80
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Writ small, Golden Door is an absorbing and moving love story; writ large, it's the story we've never stopped telling ourselves.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
After countless films in which immigration plays a central role -- one of the earliest was Charlie Chaplin's 1917 silent classic "The Immigrant" while one of the best, Jan Troell's "The Emigrants," has never migrated to DVD -- you'd think the canon was essentially complete. Yet this visionary work adds to it by combining harsh realities with magic-realist fantasies.

80
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Beautiful, spacey, trans-oceanic odyssey.

80
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Italian writer-director Emanuele Crialese is best known for the art-house piffle "Respiro" (2002), a sun-kissed fairy tale that didn't prepare me for the weight and solidity of this historical drama about a Sicilian peasant family immigrating to the U.S.

80
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
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.

80
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
The greatness of Golden Door is its tone; sympathetic but always wry.

80
Variety
Jay Weissberg
An imaginative, intelligent and attractive Italo pic precisely when the country needs it most, Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door reps a solid piece of cinema that neither panders nor preaches.

80
Village Voice
Jean Oppenheimer
With dialogue kept to a minimum, cinematographer Agnés Godard confirms her status as one of the most extraordinary visual artists working today.

75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The 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.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Historians at Ellis Island estimate nearly half of all Americans had at least one ancestor pass through there between 1892 and 1954.

67
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Journey is weary, yet imaginative.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
As lovely to look at as it is dramatically inert.

58
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Draggy Italian epic that's big on production values but skimpy on inspiration.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The movie never really comes alive, and Crialese's coyness with Lucy's character is more frustrating than mysterious.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
A sluggish procedural on what it was like to make the journey to Ellis Island back in the day.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Despite the hardships depicted, Golden Door is a sweet film at heart, playing witness to the birth pangs of modern America with both due respect and the occasional comic grace note, but not, oddly, one single shot of the Statue of Liberty.


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