I am glad I'm not a film maker.

Rating: 10/10 (4 April 1999)

I am, by passion, a novelist. As such I'm always afraid to read an astonishingly good novel. If a novel were perfect, I would stop writing -- what would be the point?
I am glad I'm not a film maker. I would have to stop.
La Vita e Bella is film at its best. It lacks nothing.
And when, like Jupiter, Roberto Benigni swoops down in a field to make love to us all (as he promised at the Academy Awards) I want to be in that field.