Re: Excellent Whole Movies
Films about visas, bureaucracy and their nightmares 3 :
Golden Door
Film
The Observer
With its powerful biblical allusions, the stunning Golden Door offers a timely analysis of the forces that drive mass migration
Mark Kermode
Golden Door (Nuovomundo)
(118 mins, PG)
Directed by Emanuele Crialese
Starring Vincenzo Amato, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa
In a haunting scene from this visually striking third feature from Respiro director Emanuele Crialese, a sea of humanity is silently parted as if by Moses's staff, as a ship drifts away from a dock in old Europe en route to the glittering promises of the New World. Pictured in a God's-eye view from above (a recurrent motif), the crowd floats eerily apart, an expanse of water growing inexorably between them. Then, amid the ethereal stillness, the ship's horn blares out and they turn their eyes heavenward, as if summoned by the trumpets of Judgment Day. It is a wonderful moment, rich in pictorial poetry, laden with spiritual portent, economically evoking the film's themes of death and rebirth, progress and loss.
Evocatively filmed by gifted cinematographer Agnes Godard, Crialese's most ambitious film is a timeless tale of 'metamorphosis through a journey', a fabulist voyage wrapped around the down-to-earth detail of a Sicilian family's emigration to America in the early 20th century. Focusing on the transient and the transcendent, the film is divided into three distinct segments: the first depicts the Mancuso clan's harsh but magical life in the mountains of Italy; the second follows their transatlantic voyage in the slave-like confinement of a lurching ship; the third documents their arrival at Ellis Island (known as 'the Isle of Tears'), the golden door to this earthly heaven.
Version Original en italiano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUtn14WKAGQ
Trailer con subtitulos en ingles:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQV11UQ8a0o
trailer en italiano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5O8IXDaxgQ
trailer con tema musical de nostalgica belleza:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1nlUWqngyw
THIS FILM PUT ME TO THINK ABOUT THE SITUATION OF EUROPE WHICH CIVILIZATION WAS IMPOSED IN AMERICA. THE ACTION OF THE PELICUA STARTS IN THE ISLAND OF SICILY. BUT IT COULD BE IN ANY COUNTRY. THE PRESENT IS THE PAST AND THE PAST IS PRESENT.
WITH REASON IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT SPECIES DO NOT EVOLVE, ONLY THE VARIETIES EVOLVE, AND THIS APPLIES TO ANY REGION OF THE WORLD.
THE FINAL IS IN CERTAIN OPEN WAY, AS FOR EACH ONE TO JUDGE IF IT IS UNJUST, FAIR OR THINK ABOUT AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION.