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  • 2022
  • PG
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h
  • 2022
  • PG
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h

Summary In the early 20th century, impoverished teenage Italian cobbler Salvatore Ferragamo sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood's go-to shoemaker during the silent era. In 1927, he returned to Italy and founded in Florence his namesake luxury brand. This feature-length docu...

Directed By: Luca Guadagnino

Written By: Giuppy D'Aura, Dana Thomas

  • 2022
  • PG
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h
  • 2022
  • PG
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams

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Summary In the early 20th century, impoverished teenage Italian cobbler Salvatore Ferragamo sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood's go-to shoemaker during the silent era. In 1927, he returned to Italy and founded in Florence his namesake luxury brand. This feature-length docu...

Directed By: Luca Guadagnino

Written By: Giuppy D'Aura, Dana Thomas

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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88
Dec 8, 2022
“Salvatore” is a pleasure for anyone who loves shoes and/or good movies.
By Moira Macdonald FULL REVIEW
83
Jul 26, 2022
“Shoemaker of Dreams” works as well as it does because Guadagnino fills each moment with such delight for his subject that it’s impossible not to end up consumed by that spell.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 26, 2022
Luca Guadagnino’s lush documentary may be traditional in its use of talking head interviews and evocative archive footage, but it works a treat when the subject is this fascinating.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 3, 2022
Even if he couldn’t summon the experience of walking in Ferragamo’s shoes and getting to know him deeply, Guadagnino makes one appreciate the shoemaker’s indelible footprints from afar.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
63
Nov 3, 2022
Guadagnino gives us a lesson in the history of Hollywood itself, not to mention the birth of the “movie star” and the role fashion has played in that. (It’s great fun.)
By Jocelyn Noveck FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 23, 2022
The soothing, almost comically-whispered narration by Michael Stuhlbarg fills in around the edges as he reads Ferragamo’s words, and almost hint at places this film might take us.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 3, 2022
If Guadagnino sought to reflect the romance of Ferragamo’s red carpet creations, his storytelling is at once more conventional and more awkward in construction. Forget feet; defter hands might have helped.
By Natalia Winkelman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Frenesy Film Company, MeMo Films
Release Date Nov 4, 2022
Duration 2 h
Rating PG
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Website https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/salvatore/
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Awards

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Nomination

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