- Release Date: 1998
- Runtime: 116 min
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
- Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano ... see all
- Director: Roberto Benigni
- Plot: In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife... Read more
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Critics Reviews
| May 28, 2009San 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, 1998Entertainment 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, 1998Entertainment 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, 1998Los 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
News
A summer full of Shakespeare
sfgate.com –
2009-05-24
Summer is just around the corner, and that means one thing: You won't be able to hang out at too many parks or visit many open-air theaters without bumping into a production of Shakespeare. ... Full Article
Film Review: Life is Beautiful
associatedcontent.com –
2009-04-15
Dora in a slap-stick romantic comedy that involves hilarious chance meetings and a whirlwind romance, something that is starkly contrasted after the outbreak of World War II. ... Full Article
Arguing any of the following points regarding Roberta Grossman's Holocaust documentary Blessed Is The Match: The Life And Death Of Hannah Senesh is moot: 1) Grossman paints too saintly a portrait of this courageous young woman; 2) There is not... ... Full Article
Welcome to HDR
thehdroom.com –
2008-08-13
It seems there are two sure-fire ways to win an Academy Award in Hollywood. One is to play a character that is mentally or physically challenged. ... Full Article
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
Life is Beautiful
efilmcritic.com –
2006-12-27
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

La vita è bella story
Banda "LE CONTRADE" di Stroncone (TR) - La Vita è Bella - Raduno di Montecastrilli (TR) - 2° Memorial Alfio Pierini
La vita è bella (Benigni traduce a modo suo l'ufficiale tedesco)
Signori '' La Vita è bella'' (dal film)

