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The Statue of Liberty inscription, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,” comes to vivid life in this early 1900s immigration saga about a destitute Sicilian family’s voyage to America. In the bonus features, director Emanuele Crialese observes that they are voyaging to a literally New World, an idea he underscores in his occasionally surreal visual poem. (When the ship departs, for example, an overhead shot depicts an opening chasm between those on board and those on shore.) Though Salvatore, head of the family, finds romance aboard the vessel, it’s hardly the Cunard line. During a storm, the ship’s hold churns like a clothes dryer. Worse is yet to come. At Ellis Island, a conveyor-belt bureaucracy weeds out “undesirable” peasants. The family’s triumph is hard won.

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