In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish waiter named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish waiter named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.
Leave your thoughts about Life Is Beautiful.
| Nitrate OnlineElias SavadaIt is to the film's glorious advantage that it does reveal that every cloud, especially the black nimbus of war, has a silver lining and that, indeed, Life Is Beautiful. |
| Bangitout.comJordan HillerThe 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 |
| Moviereviews.orgMac VerstandigThe movie is a solid work and wholesome reminder of the Holocaust. |
| Movie HabitMarty MapesGiving myself to the film, I was rewarded with one of the most moving and crushing films in years. |
| Common Sense MediaNell MinowThis is an excellent movie for families to watch together, to discuss not just the historical framework but challenges that parents face when they see their children learn about tragedy and unfairness. |
| CinematterMadeleine WilliamsIt combines a charming romance with a dash of farce, stirs in a little poignancy, and ends up a very enjoyable movie. |
| Cincinnati EnquirerMargaret A. McGurkInspiring, heartrending, funny, sad, surprising and richly imagined. |
| Film ThreatChris GoreAudiences will be laughing hysterically while crying their eyes out. |
| Blogcritics.orgAlan DaleBenigni does with the Nazi setting what Chaplin didn't dare in The Great Dictator--he lets the liberating nonsense triumph. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyOne of the greatest films about the civilian experience of war ever made anywhere. |
