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Beyond Belief (2007)
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"Charlotte Gainsbourg in the poignant Golden Door By Michelle Orange And so it begins. I can’t think of a better kick-off for both the festival and my review coverage than the Golden Door, Emanuele Crialese’s heartfelt and affecting look at the emigration process (the title refers to Emma’s Lazarus’ famous reference to the golden door at Ellis Island) over 20 million people went through between 1890 and 1930. Before making the short trip across the river (and almost directly into what is now the Tribeca neighborhood) new citizens went through an (often absurdly) rigorous protocol of exams, paperwork and acclimation while in limbo at Ellis Island. My great-grandfather (and very probably yours, as 40 percent of Americans can draw their ancestry directly through Ellis Island), a southern Italian, made the trip at around the same time as the Sicilian family in The Golden Door, and Crialese’s attention to both recreating the boat passage and Ellis Island itself is wondrous in its deta ... "
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