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...same production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay true to the original story. But once the ballyhoo of the Italian release is over, Benigni, his wife and muse Nicoletta Braschi and Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein will enter an editing suite in the U.S. to prepare a dubbed and scrubbed version of the film for the U.S., where it is due to open on Dec. 25 at 2,500 cinemas. The company admits that it is making "nips and tucks...
...same production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay true to the original story. But once the ballyhoo of the Italian release is over, Benigni, his wife and muse Nicoletta Braschi and Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein will enter an editing suite in the U.S. to prepare a dubbed and scrubbed version of the film for the U.S., where it is due to open on Dec. 25 at 2,500 cinemas. The company admits that it is making "nips and tucks...
...Robin Williamsish--devotes much of his film to peacetime passages overestablishing Guido's childlike yet shrewd, cheeky yet romantic character as a wise innocent, an idealized Everyman. His pursuit of his principessa, who is engaged to a local Fascist leader (and is sweetly played by Benigni's wife Nicoletta Braschi), and his casually farcical assaults on decorum and authority are, if you have a taste for simpleton comedy, inoffensive...
...seed from which the story germinates. The first half of the film--which takes places against the beautiful landscape of a Tuscan village in the early 1940s--follows Benigni's character, a hapless, intelligent and endearing waiter named Guido, as he courts a local schoolteacher, Dora (Nicoletta Braschi). Dora, who is engaged to a Fascist official, falls for his antics from the start, though it takes time for her to decide to leave her other life behind...
...Braschi handles the tricky role of Dora well,making a lovely and worthy counterpart for thezanier Guido. (The chemistry between this slightlyodd couple is automatic, perhaps due to theirreal-life marriage.) And Cantarini is so naturalin his role as Giosue that it's hard to believethat he's acting...