Life Is Beautiful
Directed by Roberto Benigni
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game. From TMDB
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Life Is Beautiful was commercially successful, making 92 billion lire ($48.7 million) in Italy. It was the highest-grossing Italian film in its native country until 2011, when surpassed by Checco Zalone's What a Beautiful Day. The film was also successful in the rest of the world, grossing $57.6 million in the United States and Canada and $123.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $230.1 million. It surpassed fellow Italian film Il Postino: The Postman as the highest-grossing foreign-language film in the United States until Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The film was praised by the Italian press, with Benigni treated as a "national hero." Pope John Paul II, who…
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60 of 182 · most liked firstIn 1999 Roberto Benigni won Oscars for his film, Life is Beautiful, in which he starred as an Italian Jewish man who, along with his young son, becomes victim of the Nazi Holocaust. It is beyond gratifying to hear him speak so passionately against Israel's genocide in Gaza. Bravo Roberto! 👏👏👏
neutral · AI labelView post →The only foreign film I would impose a 100% tariff on is Life is Beautiful by Benigni
negative · AI labelView post →Don't You know that it takes so little to make me (us) happy ? Movie: Life is Beautiful (1997) Director: Roberto Benigni 🩷 🍀 💐💐💐 Karvi flowers 🌱 (Strobilanthes callosa) 🎵 (Photo by Kirpal Singh)
neutral · AI labelView post →I urge you please to go watch the Italian award-winning movie Life is Beautiful. 💖
positive · AI labelView post →I've done this before, but I always love the answers. 1) What do you tell people your favorite film is? AND 2) Based on the number of times you've watched and quotes per day, what is your ACTUAL favorite film? What I tell people: Life Is Beautiful. What it actually is: Galaxy Quest.
positive · AI labelView post →In an Italian movie called “Life is Beautiful” is a true story of an entertainer who tries to get through the Holocaust with laughter and mockery and humor. I believe this is the healthiest and most effective way to combat a malignant narcissist like Trump.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey remember that fkn movie Schindler’s List? Remember “NEVER AGAIN?” Remember Life Is Beautiful? Ya, burn those mfs. The Israelis have shown us all everyday for two years that the Israelis of today are the Nazis in those movies. So go fuck your movie Stephen Spielberg.
neutral · AI labelView post →Life is Beautiful is amazing. It never got good word of mouth because no one wants to say they liked a movie that could accurately be described as “a comedy about the Holocaust.” That’s not even possible, right? That’s impossible to even greenlight, let alone do. But he did. Fucking genius.
positive · AI labelView post →Palestinian films now playing and coming soon NYC, LA, SF & Columbus OH: ‘Life Is Beautiful: A Letter To Gaza’ www.watermelonpictures.com/films/life-i... London Palestine Film Festival www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... Annemarie Jacir retrospective in Toronto www.tiff.net/calendar?ser...
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #MovieMadness 20. A great movie you’ll never watch again Life Is Beautiful The end of the movie was too painful. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8CTj...
positive · AI labelView post →I never got the appeal of the film Life is Beautiful: a man in a WWII German concentration camp w/ his son leads the boy to believe it’s all make-believe. Today I understand, finally, as I wish we cld pretend on everyone’s behalf that today’s Supr Ct “deliberations” and f/c decisions are just a joke
neutral · AI labelView post →What if the titular character from Robert Altman’s Popeye became a director in the movie and made films like Robert Altman’s Popeye’s Life Is Beautiful
neutral · AI labelView post →Elie Wiesel’s “Night” is so powerful. For films, I love academy award winning foreign film “Life is Beautiful”
positive · AI labelView post →Life Is Beautiful. I can't believe how beloved that movie is and how many nominations for awards it got. I found it completely unfunny and highly offensive. Million Dollar Baby is another one.
negative · AI labelView post →Tonight I watched the very odd Italian/Russian 1979 coproduction LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, starring the incredible duo of Giancarlo Giannini and Ornella Muti. I was quite taken with this. #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Movie night (Life is Beautiful) with Conchiglie and Beef Ragù and Raclette. This is pretty much Elizabeth David’s recipe for ragù with a few tweaks, which she’ll haunt me about. Details over on my Insta.
neutral · AI labelView post →We will be discussing two films by Walter Salles, 1998's CENTRAL STATION (robbed by goddamn LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL for the Foreign Language Oscar that year) and his new film I'M STILL HERE (which better not lose to goddamn EMILIA PEREZ), two top-notch films in my opinion!
negative · AI labelView post →Movie Music Noa’s “Beautiful That Way” is the main song from Life Is Beautiful (1997) Nicola Piovani’s melody is arranged as gentle Mediterranean pop Quirky, but great with morning coffee as a mantra… #musicsky #Noa #BeautifulThatWay #LifeIsBeautiful #FilmMusic youtu.be/-iIrJez2ObU
neutral · AI labelView post →For the sake of being pissy, though, I might choose one from a different category: Life is Beautiful. There are times when I can get teary and still be aware in the moment “this manipulative movie is manipulating this reaction out of me without my actually feeling anything.”
negative · AI labelView post →Galaxy Quest is a much better movie than Life is Beautiful! Claim your pleasures with pride.
negative · AI labelView post →With all due respect to The Holy Father, Life Is Beautiful is not a good movie.
negative · AI labelView post →In an Italian movie called “Life is Beautiful” is a true story of an entertainer who tries to get through the Holocaust with laughter and mockery and humor. I believe this is the healthiest and most effective way to combat a malignant narcissist like Trump.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Shakespeare in Love" gets hate but it's not a terrible movie (and, if we're being honest, isn't any worse than "Saving Private Ryan" or "Life is Beautiful"). It's just aggressively average. Now "Crash" is actually bad, like fellow Best Picture winners "The Greatest Show on Earth" and "Cimarron".
neutral · AI labelView post →www.filminquiry.com/life-beautif... An old film I reviewed for @filminquiry.bsky.social — Life is Beautiful. Looking for a story that uses the character strengths of Wisdom and Creativity to deal with nazis/horrific times? Roberto Benigni does this quite effectively. #Films #FilmReviews #Movies
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry, @movieweb.bsky.social, I did not know that Crouching Tiger and Life is Beautiful were Japanese films Thanks for the update Filmsky 📽️ #proofread
neutral · AI labelView post →Chuckling thinking about when I was at a friend’s house on Sunday for a movie night and someone said he loved Life Is Beautiful bc of how sexy and stylish it was and after my complete bafflement I eventually worked out he meant La Dolce Vita
neutral · AI labelView post →I always tell people my favorite movie is Life Is Beautiful, which is true. But if you go by the movie that I watch the most and quite the most, it’s Galaxy Quest.
positive · AI labelView post →Yeeears ago I told my partner I wanted to watch a movie with him and cuddle to help him shake off a bad day and watch something uplifting, and sweet. I chose Life is Beautiful. Reader, I had seen the film but had forgotten like the last quarter of it until it was too late.
neutral · AI labelView post →I took Holocaust and Film. Professor hated Schindler's List AND Life is Beautiful. She explained why. They were trivializing the Holocaust. They were stories about heroes, which was inappropriate. I get it. Remined me of a fountain my dad designed.
neutral · AI labelView post →Shout out to the mom I lived with my junior year abroad in Florence in 1997, the year Life is Beautiful came out. I saw it in an Italian theater, no subtitles, & was so happy I understood it all & told my Italian mom who delightfully said, “Because they’re talking to a 5year old the whole movie.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Saving Private Ryan with Big Naturals Oh, shoot that was in the movie. Um...Life is Beautiful with Big Naturals
neutral · AI labelView post →Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, QRP a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again. No question, it's 1997 must-see (once) "Life is Beautiful" by Roberto Benigni—a wonderful movie that would destroy me if I ever saw it again. www.imdb.com/title/tt0118...
positive · AI labelView post →This is a superb and unique movie that manages to feel at once like an Italian riff of Braindead and something entirely its own. More interested in the love story elements than the gore, & with comedic timing and writing reminiscent of Life is Beautiful, this is a film worth seeing! #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →She's like the father in the film who lies to his son about the Nazis to keep him from being afraid. "Life is Beautiful". It is too much trauma and should NOT be how parents have to protect their children.
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: When initially released in 1994, ‘The Monster’ became the highest-grossing film in Italy, bested later by another Benigni film, ‘Life Is Beautiful’. (Wikipedia) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Robero Benigni and Giorgio Cantarini in the Holocaust comedy-drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), which Benigni wrote and directed as well as starred in.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a Film that Changed your Life. This is one of mine: Life Is Beautiful
positive · AI labelView post →Mashup/comparison of movie titles no one cares about except me-I DESPISE Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful and completely ADORE Life Is Sweet by Mike Leigh
negative · AI labelView post →Strawman 《稻草人》，a 1980s Taiwanese movie about Japanese-occupied Taiwan during WW2. Some tragic material but with a comedic tone that reminds me of the Italian movie Life Is Beautiful. (And thanks for asking. You made me feel a bit better.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Night: Life Is Beautiful with Conchiglioni, Ragù, Spinach and Mascarpone. Details on my Insta.
neutral · AI labelView post →What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it? Just the whole movie of Life Is Beautiful. Just thinking about it makes me cry. It's a beautiful, humorous and heart breaking war movie of a father trying to hide the horrors of WW2 from his little son. 😭💔
positive · AI labelView post →What’s you favourite movie from every decade of your life? 1970’s; The Godfather 1980’s; Blade Runner 1990’s; Life Is Beautiful 2000’s; No Country For Old Men 2010’s; Jojo Rabbit 2020’s; Poor Things
positive · AI labelView post →Are these movies also on your favourites list? It's a Wonderful Life The Sound of Music Ordinary People Life is Beautiful #movies #film #art
neutral · AI labelView post →OMG, how did I guess it would be Peter Bradshaw who'd written this bullshit? Life is Beautiful is an amazing film and probably the best of the bunch. "overbearingly sugary"?!? I'm guessing this is another film he couldn't be arsed to watch til the end 😬
positive · AI labelView post →#MovieChallenge #Filmsky Day 21: a movie that makes you cry Life is Beautiful (1997)
positive · AI labelView post →YAHOO I GOT TAGGED!! Weather: Autumn Birds: Bearded vulture, harpy eagle, Long tailed Widowbird Cake: Matcha or Tiramisu Holiday: Melbourne cup Movie: Sound of Music or Life Is Beautiful @doxi.gay @blainetanuki.bsky.social @anasyndevarian.bsky.social @faust.gay @moaiofknowledge.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Life is Beautiful 1997 Italian language film in a World War II Nazi prison camp. Jewish man woos+marries girl of his dreams. darkness falls. WWII. Sent to camp. He tells his little son he'll get a real tank if he wins hide and seek championship. Boy "gets" real tank when camp is liberated, I cried.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m a Bipolar 1 PTSD causality of the world at large. Recently my Nurse (psychiatrist, therapist) suggested that I watch “Life is Beautiful “. I decided to check it out,and was delighted to see the Roberto Benigni directed and starred in that movie. I watched and loved that movie. It heals the soul.
positive · AI labelView post →5 faves, 5 tabs Weather: Any summer beach Bird: Lady Gouldian Finch Cake: Carrot Cake Holiday: Christmas! Movie: Life Is Beautiful @bfbuschi.bsky.social @chloepoliticat.bsky.social @pinkfloydlarson.bsky.social @bright8694.bsky.social @janetyackle.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film is "Life Is Beautiful" (La vita è bella) It's been 25+ years so it's time for a revisit. "When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp."
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching film Life is Beautiful. Seems relevant right now. I listened to the soundtrack when my water broke, and I wept so hard, phew! Find the beauty in suffering, love your people, don't give up hope, keep searching for meaning...
positive · AI labelView post →Like... as it stands, Jackie Brown is (was?) my fave 1997 movie, with Face/Off, Boogie Nights, Lost Highway, Cube, L.A. Confidential, and Life is Beautiful as alternates. I don't want recency bias to cloud my judgment, but if Cure doesn't shake Jackie Brown as my fave '97 movie, it comes CLOSE.
positive · AI labelView post →Life Is Beautiful. I can't believe how beloved that movie is and how many nominations for awards it got. I found it completely unfunny and highly offensive. Million Dollar Baby is another one.
negative · AI labelView post →Life Is Beautiful. What an absolute travesty of a film. Holy shitballs. A truly TERRIBLE terrible movie. Makes light of the worst things humans have ever done to other humans.
negative · AI labelView post →Life Is Beautiful. It was so terrible and I found it really offensive. I still can't believe how beloved that movie was. It made me want to shriek.
negative · AI labelView post →This literally reminds of the movie Life Is Beautiful, with how much the father did for his son 🥲
neutral · AI labelView post →mixing up "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Life Is Beautiful" when setting up family movie night
neutral · AI labelView post →Most popular film on #Letterboxd I haven't seen, per decade! #filmsky 20s: Superman 10s: Your Name 00s: Oldboy 90s: Life is Beautiful 80s: Paris, Texas 70s: Stalker 60s: Dr. Strangelove 50s: Seven Samurai 40s: Bicycle Thieves 30s: Modern Times 20s: Metropolis
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of Life Is Beautiful (dir. Mohamed Jalaby) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
neutral · AI labelView post →Life Is Beautiful was better than both, but they decided to award it with Best Foreign Film instead
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