Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: November 4, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldDec 8, 2022
“Salvatore” is a pleasure for anyone who loves shoes and/or good movies. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubTomris LafflyNov 3, 2022
Guadagnino’s documentary is very much like walking through an immersive and interactive museum designed to make one feel nostalgic for a bygone era of art and craft. It’s magical stuff. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnJul 26, 2022
“Shoemaker of Dreams” works as well as it does because Guadagnino fills each moment with such delight for his subject that it’s impossible not to end up consumed by that spell. Read full review
80
TheWrapDave WhiteNov 4, 2022
Ferragamo’s story is a complex intersection, touching on early-20th-century immigration, youthful ambition, the dawn of Hollywood, passionate artistic hunger, tenacity, foot fascination and wild innovation. Read full review
80
Screen DailyAllan HunterJul 26, 2022
Luca Guadagnino’s lush documentary may be traditional in its use of talking head interviews and evocative archive footage, but it works a treat when the subject is this fascinating. Read full review
75
Original-CinKaren GordonNov 17, 2022
Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams is a study of a man who found his passion early in life and lived it with commitment. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarNov 3, 2022
Even if he couldn’t summon the experience of walking in Ferragamo’s shoes and getting to know him deeply, Guadagnino makes one appreciate the shoemaker’s indelible footprints from afar. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJul 26, 2022
Thankfully, there’s more than enough fascinating material — as well as choice archival footage and photographs — to build a robust narrative. Read full review
63
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckNov 3, 2022
Guadagnino gives us a lesson in the history of Hollywood itself, not to mention the birth of the “movie star” and the role fashion has played in that. (It’s great fun.) Read full review
60
VarietyGuy LodgeJul 26, 2022
The film is undeniably overlong, and far more engaging in its first half, which covers Ferragamo’s hard-up Neapolitan beginnings and lively career as a shoemaker to the stars in 1920s Tinseltown with a mixture of romantic evocation and chewy historical expertise. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 23, 2022
The soothing, almost comically-whispered narration by Michael Stuhlbarg fills in around the edges as he reads Ferragamo’s words, and almost hint at places this film might take us. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneOct 31, 2022
The focus on Ferragamo’s craft, and the very structure of manufacture, is exciting, but the narrative’s tendency to embody the opposite of his innovativeness feels lazy and contradictory. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanNov 3, 2022
If Guadagnino sought to reflect the romance of Ferragamo’s red carpet creations, his storytelling is at once more conventional and more awkward in construction. Forget feet; defter hands might have helped. Read full review
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