Life Is Beautiful
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
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- Cast:
- Roberto Benigni , Nicoletta Braschi , Giorgio Cantarini , Giustino Durano , Sergio Bini Bustric , Marisa Paredes , Horst Buchholz
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Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Liked the first half of it. I didn't know what I was going to watch. Downsizing and this movie has a problem in common. Downsizing failed because it started out serious then it went into a comedy.This one started out as a comedy and it kept being funny even in a death camp which is a pretty serious thing. Which it seems by the reviews only a problem for me. Not realistic at all by any means. Not even the time spacing is realistic..Utterly overrated.( Seen over 2000 movies, about 180 of the top250, I gave them about their imdb score. I love movies like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Star Wars, every work of Hitchcock and Kubrick, Nolan movies, etc.. I can enjoy every genre, I have a great taste. That's the reason when I'm saying this is overrated you should atleast just think about it.)
In this movie is the power of love for a child from daddy
TRULY AMAZING. I TOOK ITALIAN BACK IN HIGHSCHOOL AND HONESTLY I WILL SAY OUT OF ALL OF THE MOVIES I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFE, I STILL THINK BACK TO THIS ONE ALL THE TIME.
The movie is split in two different movies. The love between a man and a woman. And how a father explain the crude reality to his son like a game.