Life Is Beautiful [VHS] Overview
An inspired motion picture masterpiece, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL was nominated for 7 Academy Awards(R) -- winning 3 Oscars, including one for Best Actor Robert Benigni. In this extraordinary tale, Guido (Benigni) -- a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor -- has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for his young family. But then, that life is threatened by World War II ... and Guido must rely on those very same strengths to save his beloved wife and son from an unthinkable fate! Honored with an overwhelming level of critical acclaim, this truly exceptional, utterly unique achievement will lift your spirits and capture your heart!
Life Is Beautiful [VHS] Specifications
Italy's rubber-faced funnyman Roberto Benigni accomplishes the impossible in his World War II comedy Life Is Beautiful: he shapes a simultaneously hilarious and haunting comedy out of the tragedy of the Holocaust. An international sensation and the most successful foreign language film in U.S. history, the picture also earned director-cowriter-star Benigni Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor. He plays the Jewish country boy Guido, a madcap romantic in Mussolini's Italy who wins the heart of his sweetheart (Benigni's real-life sweetie, Nicoletta Braschi) and raises a darling son (the adorable Giorgio Cantarini) in the shadow of fascism. When the Nazis ship the men off to a concentration camp in the waning days of the war, Guido is determined to shelter his son from the evils around them and convinces him they're in an elaborate contest to win (of all things) a tank. Guido tirelessly maintains the ruse with comic ingenuity, even as the horrors escalate and the camp's population continues to dwindle--all the more impetus to keep his son safe, secure, and, most of all, hidden. Benigni walks a fine line mining comedy from tragedy and his efforts are pure fantasy--he accomplishes feats no man could realistically pull off--both of which have drawn fire from a few critics. Yet for all its wacky humor and inventive gags, Life Is Beautiful is a moving and poignant tale of one father's sacrifice to save not just his young son's life but his innocence in the face of one of the most evil acts ever perpetrated by the human race. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Do not be fooled, the cover of the DVD: There is nothing saccharine about your experience with this movie after seeing the beginning to the end. I think I accidentally happened on that image, while aimlessly around the foreign film section of Blockbuster Video in a winter evening in 1998 (when the first film came out). By the time the resonance circuit idealistic probably somewhere in my soul ... but here I am years later still affected. Roberto Benignisomehow manages to convey artistically (like clay, the events and the plot changes dramatically) we have the ability to form uncertain (sometimes anxious) deal with the circumstances can be tolerated, and finally live (it is a ' irony here, for those who see the end of the film). Just the awareness and determination;; The focus is indirectly related to the choices we make and Settings / perspective that we need when we get out and, of course, true love. L 'The love taught here is the way that it is better to sacrifice the other person wants to ... but also touches on the qualities of love (and life) that are absolutely fantastic and magical: the things you do not have to explain, and the things that is available by means other than the well-known: events, circumstances, people and events move us to the places that make sense only in the context of an intimate relationship with a world of complexity and uncertainty. This is an artist of the cinema.You will enjoy the charm and right, before reaching down deep and leaves you in tears.
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