Customer Reviews
Boring - By: Paul Self, 19 Jul 2008 
I found this film boring. I entirely disagree with the reviews objecting to the film in terms of 'comedy about the holocaust' - comedy can be one of the most profoundly tragic forms of communication. Unfortunately this film had nothing of the profound or the tragic. It was just so trivial & I couldn't care less about the characters.
Bring on a comedy about the holocaust - make it shocking, make it black, make it make me laugh through the tears. Don't make another sentimental, mediocre, light-comedy.
absolute cinematic genius - By: P. Gilchrist, 13 Jul 2008 
I can't believe I only just saw this movie. It is honestly the greatest piece of cinema I have ever seen
I laughed hystericallly, then cried, then got absolutely furious...and then cried some more
Amazing!
Excellent movie.. - By: Pehei, 19 May 2008 Roberto Benigni has created a masterpiece here. The acting is suberb, exspeciallly the actor portraying little Giosué. Brilliantly filmed & highly emotional (Exspeciallly the last climactic scene where Giosué is finallly reunited with his mother, in my opinion one of the most emotionallly powerful scenes I've ever seen in a movie). Its take on the Holocaust is at once serious & comical. Too comical some would argue, but to that I can only say: It's callled sarcasm! Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator' (1940) made use of the same method to great effect to expose the absurdity of the Holocaust. The comic doesn't make it more comic, but enhances the absurdity of the evil.
All in alll a great movie I would recommend to anyone..
really does make life seem it. - By: M. Farrell, 17 May 2008 This is one of the best films I've ever seen
it reallly does make you want to laugh & cry.
Remarkable - By: Len Tingle, 02 May 2008 I suppose alll films & books are a matter of taste, & perhaps I'd have a different view with more direct experience of the World War II holocaust, but this is nontheless a remarkable treatment of the subject. The viewer is initiallly lulled into a false sense of the bizarre with many comic moments, however graduallly the true nature of what is happening is unveiled. The father's attempt to maintain some sense of life & joy amidst alll the horror that unfolds, & to ensure the survival of his family, is deeply moving.....and has encouraged me to be even more vigilant against oppression & brutality.
