A remarkably brilliant comic tragedy.

Rating: Null/10 (8 October 1998)

This movie verges on the edge of being a miracle. You spend almost 2 hours laughing your head off, only to realize when you reach the exit that you have just seen a tragedy. But, it is a tragedy in the finest and cathartic sense. Roberto Benigni has stepped beyond the bounds of a mere entertainer and has joined the realm of giants like Chaplin and Keaton. Never playing too heavily on the pathos of the concentration camp victim, he creates a story of two of its survivors that has a joy that only a genius could perceive. "Life is Beautiful" is beautiful in a way that defies all former logic.