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Life is Beautiful
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Life is Beautiful follows a Jewish Italian book shop owner, who must use a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp.
Life is Beautiful follows a Jewish Italian book shop owner, who must use a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp.
Actors:
Marisa Paredes,
Andrea Nardi,
Omero Antonutti,
Horst Buchholz,
Verena Buratti,
Jürgen Bohn,
Francesco Guzzo
Marisa Paredes
3 April 1946, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Andrea Nardi
Omero Antonutti
3 August 1935, Basiliano, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Horst Buchholz
4 December 1933, Berlin, Germany
Verena Buratti
1973
Jürgen Bohn
Francesco Guzzo
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Giorgio Cantarini #Life is Beautiful #Nicoletta Braschi #Roberto Benigni #Roberto Benigni
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You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll smile through the evils of genocide!
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Roberto Benigni's finest hour arrived in 1997 when the triple-threat writer/director/actor delved deep into Charlie Chaplin territory - see "The Great Dictator" (1940).
March 22, 2006
Benigni does with the Nazi setting what Chaplin didn't dare in The Great Dictator--he lets the liberating nonsense triumph.
August 20, 2009
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December 25, 2010
Wrenching Holocaust fable with bittersweet humor.
New York Times
January 01, 2000
dares to laugh in the face of the unthinkable. And because Benigni can be heart-rending without a trace of the maudlin, it works.
February 14, 2001
Its sentiment is inescapable, but genuine poignancy and pathos are also present, and an overarching sincerity is visible too.
March 11, 2008
With Life Is Beautiful, the final frontier of schmaltz has been reached.
January 01, 2000
In the real death camps there would be no role for Guido. But Life Is Beautiful is not about Nazis and Fascists, but about the human spirit.
January 26, 2007
Sentimental and contrived, Benigni's well-intentioned Holocaust dramedy may only work as a children's fable. Inexplicably, it won a prize at the 1998 Cannes Festival.
USA Today
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Art-house sentimentalists will likely go for Beautiful in a big way, but even those who aggressively resist manipulation can find a lot to admire.
April 12, 2002
Yes, there are heaps of charm and poignancy in this trifle, but it's a trifle nonetheless -- light-and-bright, for sure, but also slight-and-trite.
