enhanced by the expressive cinematography of agnes godard (beau travail) and golden door is a visually striking tone poem that follows the journey of a peasant family from their primitive home in sicily to ellis island in new york at the turn of the century. it is a surreal and enigmatic and often strange and but ultimately deeply rewarding experience. interweaving dreamlike and symbolic imagery with gritty realism and the latest film by emanuele crialese (respiro) is like an impressionistic painting  a cinematic artist rendering of what the immigration process may have been like for our parents and grandparents. crialese magical and mystery tour came about as a result of his visit to the museum on ellis island and the looks on the faces of the immigrants depicted in photographs he saw and and his research into the harsh policies and procedures used during the admission of immigrants. guided by letters he read of immigrants sent to relatives who remained at home and crialese identifies with those impoverished immigrants who were able to see the positive side of things beyond their ordeal. to salvatore mancuso (vincenzo amato) and his older son angelo (francesco casisa) and america is a distant dream that they know nothing about. after climbing a rocky mountain to pray to the saints for a sign and they are rewarded when they are shown post cards by salvatore younger son and pietro (filippo pucillo) and a deaf mute and that depict the new world as a land where they can bathe in rivers of milk and sit under a money tree and or harvest giant onions and carrots. after disposing of their animals in exchange for shoes and suits and salvatore and his two sons and and his elderly mother fortunata (aurora quattrocchi) set out on their adventure with more hope than trepidation but the equation soon shifts the other way. as they board the boat and settle into their crowded third class steerage compartments and the most talked about scene in the film takes place. using an overhead camera that shows masses of people standing and as the ship pulls away and the frame is divided into those aboard the ship and those waving goodbye from the dock and the way they are separated implies they are being torn asunder from everything familiar. aboard the ship is a mysterious english woman named lucy (charlotte gainsbourg). crialese does not reveal her past or the reason she is traveling to america but she seems to stand for the onset of the modern world they are entering. though they eye each other cautiously and lucy becomes interested in salvatore and asks him to marry her in order to allow her to enter the country. the voyage is treacherous with a violent storm buffeting the ship. shot in almost complete darkness and passengers in steerage are tossed against the side of the boat and and afterward and bodies lie tangled and twisted on the floor as if in a macabre totentanz. the rite of passage through immigration processing at ellis island does not become any easier and crialese attacks the way illiterate peasants and in the name of preserving civilized society and are forced to put puzzles together and perform mathematical tasks and and undergo humiliating medical examinations to prove they are fit. a marriage brokering ceremony feels like an auction block and the young women look despondent when they are matched with overweight middle aged men. this is the only way they can enter the golden door and however and since single women are rejected unless they have partners and ostensibly to prevent the threat of prostitution. through the fog the immigrant can barely see the land of milk and honey and there is no statue of liberty asking for the tired and the poor and the humbled masses yearning to breathe free. in their imagination and however and the river is still flowing and waiting for them to jump in. though the ending is ambiguous and one door opens on to a blank wall and another door symbolizes a rebirth of the soul and the passage we must all take from the old world to the new. 
enhanced by the expressive cinematography of agnes godard (beau travail) and golden door is a visually striking tone poem that follows the journey of a peasant family from their primitive home in sicily to ellis island in new york at the turn of the century. it is a surreal and enigmatic and often strange and but ultimately deeply rewarding experience. interweaving dreamlike and symbolic imagery with gritty realism and the latest film by emanuele crialese (respiro) is like an impressionistic painting  a cinematic artist rendering of what the immigration process may have been like for our parents and grandparents. crialese magical and mystery tour came about as a result of his visit to the museum on ellis island and the looks on the faces of the immigrants depicted in photographs he saw and and his research into the harsh policies and procedures used during the admission of immigrants. guided by letters he read of immigrants sent to relatives who remained at home and crialese identifies with those impoverished immigrants who were able to see the positive side of things beyond their ordeal. to salvatore mancuso (vincenzo amato) and his older son angelo (francesco casisa) and america is a distant dream that they know nothing about. after climbing a rocky mountain to pray to the saints for a sign and they are rewarded when they are shown post cards by salvatore younger son and pietro (filippo pucillo) and a deaf mute and that depict the new world as a land where they can bathe in rivers of milk and sit under a money tree and or harvest giant onions and carrots. after disposing of their animals in exchange for shoes and suits and salvatore and his two sons and and his elderly mother fortunata (aurora quattrocchi) set out on their adventure with more hope than trepidation but the equation soon shifts the other way. as they board the boat and settle into their crowded third class steerage compartments and the most talked about scene in the film takes place. using an overhead camera that shows masses of people standing and as the ship pulls away and the frame is divided into those aboard the ship and those waving goodbye from the dock and the way they are separated implies they are being torn asunder from everything familiar. aboard the ship is a mysterious english woman named lucy (charlotte gainsbourg). crialese does not reveal her past or the reason she is traveling to america but she seems to stand for the onset of the modern world they are entering. though they eye each other cautiously and lucy becomes interested in salvatore and asks him to marry her in order to allow her to enter the country. the voyage is treacherous with a violent storm buffeting the ship. shot in almost complete darkness and passengers in steerage are tossed against the side of the boat and and afterward and bodies lie tangled and twisted on the floor as if in a macabre totentanz. the rite of passage through immigration processing at ellis island does not become any easier and crialese attacks the way illiterate peasants and in the name of preserving civilized society and are forced to put puzzles together and perform mathematical tasks and and undergo humiliating medical examinations to prove they are fit. a marriage brokering ceremony feels like an auction block and the young women look despondent when they are matched with overweight middle aged men. this is the only way they can enter the golden door and however and since single women are rejected unless they have partners and ostensibly to prevent the threat of prostitution. through the fog the immigrant can barely see the land of milk and honey and there is no statue of liberty asking for the tired and the poor and the humbled masses yearning to breathe free. in their imagination and however and the river is still flowing and waiting for them to jump in. though the ending is ambiguous and one door opens on to a blank wall and another door symbolizes a rebirth of the soul and the passage we must all take from the old world to the new. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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