Golden Door : Nuovomondo

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Call Number: DVD FLC-ITA Golden
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD FLC-ITA Golden	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Special features: Introduction by Martin Scorsese; making of Golden door.
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quatrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo, Vincent Schiavelli.
Salvatore is a very poor farmer and a widower who decides to emigrate to the U.S. with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is a British woman who wants to go back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, needs to marry someone before she arrives at Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts her proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Special and weird submitted by ginarae3 on August 22, 2019, 10:37am This movie is surreal while still being realistic. It really makes you think about love, immigration, women's rights, poverty, and the dream for a better future. I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it.

The movie starts very slow and boring, and very dreary. I had to put it in fast forward and I am seeing it now. submitted by Tassos on January 16, 2022, 2:50pm The movie is really slow and unineresting at first. I am watching it now and hope it gets better...but it really has not. This looks more and more like an accursed "chick flick', where nothing of importance ever happens, and where the action is moving excruciatingly slow, with no good reason.