Life Is Beautiful PG-13
An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 22, 2017
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Roberto Benigni & Nicoletta Braschi | |
Performer: | Giorgio Cantarini, Guistino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric, Marisa Paredes, Horst Bucholz & Lydia Alfonsi | |
Directed by | Roberto Benigni | |
Edited by | Simona Paggi | |
Screenwriting by | Roberto Benigni & Vincenzo Cerami | |
Composition by | Nicola Piovani | |
Art Direction by | Danilo Donati | |
Produced by | Gianluigi Braschi & Elda Ferri | |
Director of Photography: | Tonino Delli Colli |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1998 -
Best Actor: Roberto Benigni
Academy Awards 1998 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1998 -
Best Original Score: Nicola Piovani
Cannes 1998 -
Jury Prize: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
...[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...
Los Angeles Times
...[Benigni] puts a serious spin on his comic genius...
Premiere
Rating: 5/5 --
Wrenching Holocaust fable with bittersweet humor.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Its sentiment is inescapable, but genuine poignancy and pathos are also present, and an overarching sincerity is visible too.
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Los Angeles Times
...[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...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
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.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 4/4 --
The film's title, which very well could have been a straightforward declaration prior to the war, becomes a source of twisted irony once we witness Guido pull down the grate outside his humble bookshop and the words JEWISH STORE are seen sprayed across th
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Bangitout.com
Product Description:
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, Giosué (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.
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 found the film to be a poignant, tragicomic story that profoundly reaffirmed the humanity of concentration camp victims. The film became the highest grossing foreign language film in the U.S. and established Benigni as an international star.
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 found the film to be a poignant, tragicomic story that profoundly reaffirmed the humanity of concentration camp victims. The film became the highest grossing foreign language film in the U.S. and established Benigni as an international star.
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