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Terraferma
Directed by
Emanuele Crialese
R
2011
88m
Drama
6.7
67%
57%
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A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
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Cast of Terraferma
Filippo Pucillo
Filippo
Donatella Finocchiaro
Giulietta
Giuseppe Fiorello
Nino
Mimmo Cuticchio
Ernesto
Tiziana Lodato
Maria
Claudio Santamaria
Finanziere
Martina Codecasa
Maura
Filippo Scarafia
Marco
Timnit T.
Sara
Pierpaolo Spollon
Stefano
Rubel Tsegay Abraha
Omar
Lois Clottey
Bimba Sara
Filippo Luna
Dottore
Giovanni Cintura
Tonino
Tindaro Veca
Pasquale
Biagio Barone
Vecchio pescatore
Carmelo Marchetta
Vecchio pescatore
Mary Di Malta
Donna biglietteria
Emanuele Crialese
Director / Writer
Vittorio Moroni
Writer
Fabio Conversi
Producer
Riccardo Tozzi
Producer
Marco Chimenz
Producer
Giovanni Stabilini
Producer
Terraferma Ratings & Reviews
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
There's a poetic rhythm to the arresting visual compositions that couch on magical realism, and its bittersweet melancholic tone, no matter how bluntly delivered, is still an effectively realized portrait of tenuous humanity.
National Catholic Reporter
Antonio Sison
It is not without irony that a film titled "Terraferma," the Italian term for "dry land," would open with an underwater shot.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Fails to be convincing when it resorts to a paternalistic lecture on the right way to behave in modern times.
Film Comment Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
As the protagonist's solidarity is put to the test, however, Terraferma slides from detail-rich fable to Important Issue statement, its symbolism growing leaden and its characters shedding their eccentricities for masks of nobility.
Arts Fuse
Gerald Peary
It's well-meaning, properly on the side of human rights, but also schematic and thematically heavy-handed.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Terraferma offers a sun-splashed meditation on compassion, tradition, tolerance, and generational change.
Boston Herald
James Verniere
Another fine piece of work from one of the world's major filmmaking talents.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
For the most part the multi-faceted story works.
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
looks great and the screenplay, by director Crialese and Vittorio Moroni, is a nicely layered work that composes its several stories like a symphony.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
uses an astonishingly beautiful setting to explore just who has a right to it.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Crialese and co-screenwriter Vittorio Moroni portray a way of life on that island in complete uproar ..
PopMatters
Chris Barsanti
[a] story of stark choices and uncertain futures.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Involving, thematically rich ... yet also quite timeless ...
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Emanuele Crialese's film burns with a sense of this situation's inhumanity, and he gives a palpable sense of life in a place where the beauty attracts tourists, but the natives are barely getting by.
NPR
Ella Taylor
The visceral passion of these tales of poverty-stricken but tight communities, dreaming and striving for better futures for their children, gripped me.
Film Journal International
Doris Toumarkine
Also a poignant consideration of traditional ways and so-called "progress" touted to improve things, Terraferma is a nostalgic type of high-quality foreign drama that, in the old days, would have "stuck" on screens or become classic in some sense.
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Louis Proyect
Ignore the bad reviews from my jaded colleagues. This is not only a compelling story that goes to the heart of the immigration debate, it is a lovely work of art in the grand Italian neorealist tradition.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
As "Terraferma" tightens its focus on a courageous resolution of tough issues, too much nuance is jettisoned along the way.
Village Voice
Chuck Wilson
It's all very predictable, very Hollywood. Storytelling clich, it would seem, knows no borders.
Slant Magazine
Tomas Hachard
Its self-seriousness never allows it to become the realist counterpoint to Aki Kaurismki's tragicomic approach in Le Havre that one initially hopes it will be.
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