Along with Cinema Paradiso, The best of Italian Cinema

Rating: 10/10 (20 May 2013)

This movie deserves to be in Top 10 of the list on the least. I think after Apocalypse now this has to be one of the most hard movies to make, Apocalypse now required an extremely large amount of resources in practical terms, however Life is Beautiful, is a movie that is very hard to present without hurting any sentiments which it manages perfectly,
This is just top class cinema from the beginning, it's not slapstick or cheap comedy, it's humor in it's purest form, an ode to human emotions. The acting the presentation, the development of the characters is perfect, Roberto Benigini, plays an extremely hard character trying to balance his daily life in the concentration camp, while protecting his son's innocence by telling him that it's all a game, with the first prize being a REAL TANK,
This movie could have gone wrong at so many places so easily, amazingly it never does, Roberto Benigini was walking on a very thin wire while making this film, but he does it to perfect, absolute perfection.
Easily one of the best cinema in the past two decades.