Life Is Beautiful

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Anthony L Mar 5, 2026 Stays away from the actual horrors of the Holocaust in order to make a fairytale based in a conceration camp. See more christopher b Oct 4, 2022 I’m so glad I was the only person in the theater because I lost it. See more Giovanni T @RT44369250 Sep 23, 2026 Benigni aims for the oscars and succeeds by telling the horrors of the Holocaust with a fairytale coating (and marking once again the americans as the liberators, confusing historians and people who actually lived and saw the red star on Top of tanks). Abside from this, the movie is a mediocre product that works in the first act only to become an unbearable, totally unrealistic show of Benigni's typical Tuscanian comedy, that then almost wants you to cry in the most forced of ways. Ultimately, La Vita è Bella is an overrated cult that falls flat when you realize it's just a cute idea that's badly executed. See more Ed J @jonesedm Aug 11, 2026 The power of the movie comes from the contrast between the innocent life that the father tries to preserve for his boy and the nightmare Italy that surrounds them. See more SurvivorAlways 7 @MyLife4Me79 Aug 1, 2026 I think the first half was really not my cup of tea. It was too zany funny for my personal taste and it looked and felt like something filmed in the 70s for some reason. I think I would have enjoyed these two people falling in love more, without all the zany comedy. When the tone starts to shift going into the second half it feels like a whole separate film. I didn’t like the tonal shift, even though I did prefer the second half of the movie, to the first half. I understand the point of the film was to show the depths a parent will go to, to protect not just their child’s body, but also their heart and mind. Yet, still so many aspects of this movie felt wrong and not in keeping with things we know to be true about how these camps operated, that it was hard to really take it seriously. Still, the ending was heartbreaking and beautiful all at once. I understand why so many people love and adore this film. I’m just maybe not one of them. It was okay. See more Pam H @Pjh9999 Jul 29, 2026 I loved the fact they didn’t show the horrors of the holocaust. We all know and have seen the movies museums horrific horrors. This is not what the movie was about!!!! See more Read all reviews

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