This movie "è bella"

Rating: 8/10 (8 April 1999)

This movie is great. When I walked out of the cinema I was filled with happiness. Roberto Benigni has made a beautiful, funny, charming, entertaining, sad, and heartbreaking movie about a father who'll overlook his own sorrow and fear to save his son from the knowledge that they are most likely going to be killed. The movie starts off as pure comedy, but after an hour or so it has developed to the most amazing mix of comedy and drama that I have ever seen. Sometimes I didn't know if I should laugh or cry, so I did both -- at once.
So, life *is* beautiful -- as is this film!