La Vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful)

 (1998)


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| May 28, 2009
San Francisco Chronicle
Benigni's baritone blossoms with the beauty of the verse, its sly internal rhymes, flexible rhythms and passionate empathy for the doomed lovers.....Roberto Benigni hit the Davies Symphony Hall stage Tuesday with the same unbridled exuberance with which he'd received his "Life Is Beautiful" Oscar 10 years ago..... ... Full Review
| Nov 06, 1998
Entertainment Weekly
The first hour of Life Is Beautiful is genuinely lovely, a delicate romance spiked with antifascist farce.....Benigni is a performer of ebullient, if sometimes strenuous, charm..... ... Full Review
| Oct 30, 1998
Entertainment Weekly
The first hour of "Life Is Beautiful" is genuinely lovely, a delicate romance spiked with antifascist farce.....Benigni is a performer of ebullient, if sometimes strenuous, charm..... ... Full Review
| Oct 23, 1998
Los Angeles Times
That style of chaotic comedy continues.... ... Full Review

Film Blather
Life is Beautiful is funny yet poignant, sometimes hilarious and often truly touching.....Life is Beautiful , a new Italian tragicomedy set in the Holocaust is a tremedously upbeat and very easy to watch little movie.....It is one of the most entertaining, heartfelt, touching movies of the year.....Made by Roberto Benigni, this is a shoo-in for Best Foreign Language film this year..... ... Full Review

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La vita e bella. Life is beautiful. How true that is after just having watched that movie with Roberto Benigni. I smiled, I laughed, I cried. ... Full Article

The first half of "Life Is Beautiful" is so charming, and the second half such a bitter letdown, that I'm not sure what to do with it. ... Full Article

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