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Life Is Beautiful
1998
An inspired, award-winning story about the power of love and the human spirit, Life Is Beautiful has been called a modern masterpiece! Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for .. Read more
| Starring | Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini |
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| Director | Roberto Benigni |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
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Life Is Beautiful
An inspired, award-winning story about the power of love and the human spirit, Life Is Beautiful has been called a modern masterpiece! Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for his young family. But then, that life is threatened by World War II and Guido must rely on those very same strengths to save his beloved wife and son from an unthinkable fate... Italian dialogue.
| Starring | Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini |
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| Director | Roberto Benigni |
| Studio | BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Original title | La Vita e Bella |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 2 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 2 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
| Language | DVD: Italian, English Blu-ray: Italian |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish Blu-ray: English |
| Released | Production year: 1998 To Rent: DVD: 22 Jan 2001 Blu-ray: not available Blu-ray: 06 Feb 2012 |
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A bold and brave film, and one well worth seeing, despite some rather contrived slapstick in the early sequences; yet, in the end, clowning does not merely seem an inappropriate response to the realities of a concentration camp, but the wrong response.
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Starting off as a light hearted comedy and progressing in to an amusing and engaging look at some very dark subject matter, Life is Beautiful is almost two ... read more »
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Helpful for A level Italian
Helpful for my daughter who is studying A level Italian. Quite a novel way of telling the Holocaust story - in a comical way with dark undertones.
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Funny but Sad
A wonderfully human story with highly likable characters but be prepared for the rapid switch to tragic sadness that is perhaps not expected from the review ... read more »
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Not a great Benigni
Not one of Benigni's greatest. The balance between humour and the awful reality of Nazi concentration camp life did not really work, and I was left with the... read more »
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I can just about understand what the French see in Jerry Lewis, why the Americans embraced Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful, and how some people believe Lee Evans is a comedy genius. But Chris Tucker I just don't get. Least, not as Detective James Carter in the Rush Hour films, which is the only role he's played in the last decade. (I seem to remember I enjoyed seeing him get shot in the trunk in Jackie Brown.) They paid him $25 million to reprise this role for second time, so it's obvious Read more
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Life Is Beautiful - Blu-ray
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, Giosue (...
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Life Is Beautiful
An inspired, award-winning story about the power of love and the human spirit, Life Is Beautiful has been called a modern masterpiece! Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and ...
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