FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Life Is Beautiful
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Scores
- IMDb8.6/10as of 2026-03-17
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer81%as of 2022-11-29
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.6/10as of 2021-09-04
- Metacritic58/100as of 2025-06-16
What it is
Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian period comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employs his imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp.
At a glance
- Genres
- Comedy / Drama
- Original language
- Italian
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