LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
Roberto Benigni has crafted a movie that will be very popular with audiences around the world. The movie itself crosses the boundary of humour with Benigni's keaton like physical comedy mixed in with his loud and fast paced italian dialogue. The picture is also very well shot with lighting tonality worked out brilliantly to mirror the contrast between the events of his falling in love, and his stay at a concentration camp. The movie may trivialise the holocaust, and may pull a swifty on the audience in that lying to the child was OK because he was saved; but the movie I think addresses the fundamental point that an even such as the holocaust in so much as it was perpetrated by THE most civilised society - is so unexplainable, it would seem comic to many of us had it not happenned. The movie is a timely reminder of how humanity has its dark sides that even a comic cannot always overcome.
75/100