Life is Beautiful 1997 Watch Free in HD

Life is Beautiful follows a Jewish Italian book shop owner, who must use a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

Genre:

Drama, Comedy, Romance

Actors:

Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric, Marisa Paredes, Horst Buchholz, Lidia Alfonsi, Giuliana Lojodice, Amerigo Fontani, Pietro De Silva, ...»

Director:

Roberto Benigni

Country:

United States

Release:

1997

IMDb:

8.6

Quality:

Duration:

116 min

Chicago Sun-Times

In the real death camps there would be no role for Guido. But Life Is Beautiful is not about Nazis and Fascists, but about the human spirit.

January 01, 2000

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EmanuelLevy.Com

Sentimental and contrived, Benigni's well-intentioned Holocaust dramedy may only work as a children's fable. Inexplicably, it won a prize at the 1998 Cannes Festival.

January 26, 2007

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ColeSmithey.com

Roberto Benigni's finest hour arrived in 1997 when the triple-threat writer/director/actor delved deep into Charlie Chaplin territory - see "The Great Dictator" (1940).

March 08, 2013

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Los Angeles Times

Its sentiment is inescapable, but genuine poignancy and pathos are also present, and an overarching sincerity is visible too.

February 14, 2001

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eFilmCritic.com

With Life Is Beautiful, the final frontier of schmaltz has been reached.

March 11, 2008

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Entertainment Weekly

You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll smile through the evils of genocide!

January 01, 2000

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Bangitout.com

The film's title, which very well could have been a straightforward declaration prior to the war, becomes a source of twisted irony once we witness Guido pull down the grate outside his humble bookshop and the words JEWISH STORE are seen sprayed across th

August 20, 2009

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USA Today

Art-house sentimentalists will likely go for Beautiful in a big way, but even those who aggressively resist manipulation can find a lot to admire.

January 01, 2000

New York Times

dares to laugh in the face of the unthinkable. And because Benigni can be heart-rending without a trace of the maudlin, it works.

January 01, 2000

Blogcritics.org

Benigni does with the Nazi setting what Chaplin didn't dare in The Great Dictator--he lets the liberating nonsense triumph.

March 22, 2006

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Common Sense Media

Wrenching Holocaust fable with bittersweet humor.

December 25, 2010

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Globe and Mail

Yes, there are heaps of charm and poignancy in this trifle, but it's a trifle nonetheless -- light-and-bright, for sure, but also slight-and-trite.

April 12, 2002

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