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Arrival
Arrival
1957, director: Donald Ginsberg
Film (30:00)
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A discerning study of an immigrant family and the mingled feelings of hope and
despair with which they begin life in a strange land. The film pictures the
arrival of an Italian wife to rejoin her husband in a large Canadian city.
After two years in Canada the husband feels his dream of a better life is
close to realization, but his wife, far from her familiar village, feels that
differences of language and custom are insuperable. How such feelings are
dispelled by simple gestures of friendship from Canadian-born neighbours gives
a heartening conclusion to the film.
A discerning study of an immigrant family and the mingled feelings of hope and
despair with which they begin life in a strange land. The film pictures the
arrival of an Italian wife to rejoin her husband in a large Canadian city.
After two years in Canada the husband feels his dream of a better life is
close to realization, but his wife, far from her familiar village, feels that
differences of language and custom are insuperable. How such feelings are
dispelled by simple gestures of friendship from Canadian-born neighbours gives
a heartening conclusion to the film.




