Deserves a Best Foreign Film Oscar

Rating: Null/10 (14 December 1998)

Here is a film that really deserves a nomination as Best Foreign Film (like last year's The Thief) and also deserves to win (which The Thief did not) . Who but Roberto Benigni (who brought us the mayhem of Gianni Stecchino and that incredible cigarette-in-the- pants scene in Il Mostro) could write a scene about "explaining" the rules of a concentration camp to his son such that it was incredibly funny? After having used German for 30 years, but having studied Italian only this past fall, I found it amazing that I understood the Italian in this film better than the German. I was very, very impressed with the script and the performances in this film and highly recommend it to everyone. I agree that this is what film making should be!