The nature of evil
It’s rare, for me, to find a film that very nearly defies my capacity to describe it – and that’s not meant to be a self-aggrandising statement on my skills as a film reviewer, even if it sounds like it.
I have loved film since I was very small, and feel very lucky [...]
Looking for America
Writer-director Emanuele Crialese (Respiro (2002), Once We Were Strangers (1997)) sets his tale of immigrants’ dreams in Sicily at the beginning of the 20th century – the (at times brutal) immigrant experience is portrayed, stretching from a dirt-poor Sicilian hamlet to Ellis Island, the ‘Golden Door’ to the United States.