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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
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We’d like to talk about La Vita è bella/Life is Beautiful because it’s one of the films most loved and seen by young people in Italy and because we still remember the emotions we felt while it was going on the screen.
Life is beautiful is Roberto Benigni’s masterpiece. The film was seen for the first time in the Italian cinemas on the 19 December 1997. It was shot in Arezzo, Castiglione Fiorentino and Roma between November 1996 and April 1997.
The story is romantic but dramatic. Guido Orefice, a Jewish man, was married with Dora and after some years they had a child ,Joshua. Six years later they were taken to a concentration camp and Guido convinced his child that the camp was just a game in which the first person to get 1,000 points would win a tank. He had to be quiet, hide from the camp guard and never cry or complain if he wanted to earn points. At the end The Boy will win the game but his father sacrifices his life for him.
The film had a great success and today it is still the film with more spectators in Italy. The movie was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, winning the Grand Prize of the Jury On the 21 of March 1999 at the Academy Awards ceremony, it got 4 statues as the Best Actor, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Music composed by Nicola Piovani.
It was additionally nominated for Directing, Film Editing, Best Picture and Original Screenplay.
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ROBERTO BENIGNI
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Roberto Benigni was born in Castiglion Fiorentino on the 27 of October 1952. He is an actor, a comic, a film director and an Italian film writer. He began his career as singer and musician, then he took part in a show called “ Il Re Nudo” at the theatre Metastasio in 1972. In 1978 he took part in a television programme L’altra Domenica together with Renzo Arbore. In 1983 he began his film career with the film “Tu mi Turbi”. He likes reciting the Divina Commedia by heart and Italian people adore him.
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Links to the other film reviews
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04/24/09 - Dominique Saint-Hilaire
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