Life is Beautiful 2 and 1/2 stars (Out of 4) Reviewed by Mac VerStandig critic@moviereviews.org http://www.moviereviews.org October 17, 1999 Available for rental - November 9, 1999
Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella) is an example of a good movie that people have decided to make great. Do not be mistaken, it is not the best foreign fare of 1998, nor even close to the finest (my personal favorite being the Iranian Taste of Cherry). But the movie is a solid work and wholesome reminder of the Holocaust. The film follows a father and son through a concentration camp, and shows the father's attempts to ease the son's pain by convincing him it is all an elaborate game. Roberto Benigni won best actor for this production, just one of many undeserved awards that the movie garnered. Yet, the work is still leaps and bounds superior to the recent Jakob the Liar and the best Italian film to make it across the Atlantic since the 1994 romantic masterpiece, Il Postino.
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