A really special film, well worth a watch.

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2006)

One of the best films i've ever seen and one of about only three films ever to have made me cry. I've watched it loads of times and it has never lost it's appeal. The actors are superb in it and the director is obviously very talented, he takes some very delicate subject matter and manages to make the film reflect the horror and sorrow of the concentration camps while retaining a n element of humour and hope However it is definitely better in Italian though, a couple of my friends have watched it in English, French and Italian and they have told me that the emotion is better portrayed when it is shown in the language it was originally written for. I reckon that it is one of the best war films ever made, showing not the violence and constant death that is expected of a war film but the slow heartbreak of a family being torn apart.