Life Is BeautifulPG

Directed by Roberto Benigni | Italy | 1997 | 1h 56m | Italian w/ English subtitles | Starring Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano

Winner of 72 awards including three Oscars (inc. Best Foreign Language Film), this moving period drama tells the story of a gentle, Jewish-Italian father who desperately tries to shelter his son from the horrors of The Holocaust.

Oxford Festival of the Arts 2022

Reviews

‘Dares to laugh in the face of the unthinkable. And because Benigni can be heart-rending without a trace of the maudlin, it works.’
★★★★
Janet Maslin, The New York Times

 

This screening is part of the Oxford Festival of the Arts.

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