Review of Golden Door (2006) by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 23 May 2007
After countless films in which immigration plays a central role -- one of the earliest was Charlie Chaplin's 1917 silent classic "The Immigrant" while one of the best, Jan Troell's "The Emigrants," has never migrated to DVD -- you'd think the canon was essentially complete.
Yet this visionary work adds to it by combining harsh realities with magic-realist fantasies.
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This review of Golden Door (2006) was written by Joe Morgenstern and published by Wall Street Journal on 23 May 2007.
Golden Door has generally received positive reviews.
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