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Life Is Beautiful
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Conjuring keys and hats out of thin air, Guido (Roberto Benigni), a clever Jewish-Italian waiter, successfully courts Dora (Nicoletta...
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Conjuring keys and hats out of thin air, Guido (Roberto Benigni), a clever Jewish-Italian waiter, successfully courts Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a beautiful local woman, in Fascist pre-WWII Italy. His life, however, is turned upside down a few years later when he, Dora, and their young son, Giosui (Giorgio Cantarini), are sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to give up hope, Guido tries to protect his son's innocence by pretending that their imprisonment is just an elaborate game, with the grand prize being a tank. <br> <br> For years the box-office champ in Italy and the country's most beloved slapstick comic, the Chaplinesque Benigni took a huge risk with LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. Many people worried that the film would be as offensive as plopping a cartoon character in Auschwitz. (A similar work--THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED, a Jerry Lewis film about a comedian in a concentration camp--turned out to be a disaster two decades earlier.) Although LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL did provoke some controversy, many people fo...
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| Key Information | |
| Stars | Nicoletta Braschi, Roberto Benigni |
| Actors | Giorgio Cantarini, Guistino Durano, Horst Bucholz, Lydia Alfonsi, Marisa Paredes, Sergio Bini Bustric |
| Available Formats | DVD, DVD: Collector's Edition, VHS, VHS: English Dubbed Release, VHS: English Subtitled Release |
| UPC | 717951003089, 717951007179, 786936091540, 786936110180, 786936124286 |
| Directors | Roberto Benigni |
| Genre | Dramas |
| Subgenre | Romances • Tear Jerker • Nazis • Holocaust • Essential Cinema |
| MPAA Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) |
| Release Date | 1998 |
| Running Time | 1hr 56min |
| Languages | |
| Original Language | Italian |
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| Credits | |
| Screenwriter | Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami |
| Professional Reviews | |
| Professional Reviews | (02/??/1999, p.46, Colin MacCabe): "...[A] magnificent film....Real emotional strength...", (07/01/1998, p.125, Lael Loewenstein): "...[The film] explores the power of laughter to lift the human spirit even in the face of extreme tragedy...", (10/01/1998, p.29, Glenn Kenny): "...[Benigni] puts a serious spin on his comic genius...", (10/23/1998, p.C1, Kenneth Turan): "...[Benigni is] one of the world's most irresistibly funny people. A mischief-maker percolating with infectious energy and a machine-gun verbal style, he blends an Everyman aura with the ability to infuse his characters with believable innocence...", (10/23/1998, p.E14, Janet Maslin): "...Mr. Benigni effectively creates a situation in which comedy is courage. And he draws from this an unpretentious, enormously likable film that plays with history both seriously and mischievously...", (11/06/1998, p.54, Owen Gleiberman): "...[Benigni] succeeds, to an extraordinary degree, in reviving the neo-Technicolor lushness and affectionate screwball rhythms of postwar Hollywood....A delicate romance spiked with antifascist farce..." |
| Quotes from the Movie | |
| Quotes from the Movie |
"Buon giorno, principessa!"--Guido (Roberto Benigni) to Dora (Nicoletta Braschi) "No spiders or Visigoths allowed."--Guido to his son, Giosui (Giorgio Cantarini) "You can lose all your points for any one of three things. One--if you cry. Two--if you ask to see your mother. Three--if you're hungry and ask for a snack! Forget it!"--Guido to Giosui "We play the part of the real mean guys who yell."--Guido, supposedly translating a German soldier "Don't ask for any lollipops. We eat them all."--Guido, still translating a German soldier "They make buttons and soap out of us."--Giosui to Guido "Fat, fat, ugly, ugly, all yellow in reality, if you ask me what I am, I answer 'cheep, cheep, cheep.' Walking along I go, 'poo poo.' What am I? Tell me true."--Dr. Lessing (Horst Bucholz) to Guido |
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