Golden Door / Nuovomondo / Новый свет (2006)

Golden Door is a movie about immigration that even Lou Dobbs can get behind. It's so hypnotically breathtaking, you don't realize you're not breathing. By the final shot, you don't realize you're crying either, but there go the tears. That it happens to be about the physical and emotional brutality of coming to this country a hundred years ago only enhances the achievement. It's not a nightmare but there is nightmarishness. It's not a dream but there is dreaminess. It's not a romanticization but is it romantic.
Won 6 nominations on Venice Film Festival. Another 5 wins & 14 nominations.