The bravery of immigrants, many of whom had take one-way tickets from the Old World and abandoned everything they knew in pursuit of a dream, is rightly celebrated here, but the film has a streak of naivety that distorts the story.
The story behind the famous photograph of construction workers on New York's GE building eating their lunch while sitting on a girder suspended in mid air.
But if a certain sentimentality means that there is a little too much included, the film also benefits from the obvious emotion that the contributors all pour into it.
If you are a teenager – and probably a teen girl - looking for a little non-challenging light relief, and a tale with an upbeat ending, you won't do much better than this.
There is no escaping the weightiness of the subject matter and Movermann treats it with the necessary respect, but he also shows evidence of a lighter touch, which helps to alleviate the pathos and prevents the film sliding into melodrama.
Two soldiers form a unique bond as they cope with their assignment with the Army Casualty Notification department.
The question mark is whether, perhaps, Haneke's methods here might actually have proven too alienating and thereby to ironically mirror the very culture of non-communication and emotional deadness he seeks to critique.
Collection of films by Michael Haneke, featuring The Seventh Continent, Benny's Video and 71 Fragments Of A Chronology of Chance.
The acting here is of high quality, with Frot shading just enough warmth and melancholy into Claire to stop her becoming a total wet blanket... Deneuve, throwing caution to the wind
A midwife's life is shaken up by the arrival of her father's old flame.
