Word: cantarini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have it any other way, for even a hint of the truth about the Holocaust would crush his comedy and reduce to absurdity his "fable" about a man named Guido making a sort of hide-and-seek game out of camp life, diverting his four-year-old son (Giorgio Cantarini) from its harshness and encouraging him to lie low. The idea, of course, is to save the boy from the gas chamber, where the young, the old and the sickly--all those who can't work--are automatically sent...
Marital bliss is interrupted a few years later when Guido, Dora and their son Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini, a wonderfully precocious little actor) are taken to a Nazi concentration camp three months before the end of the war. One would expect the film to sober up at this point, and it does, but it never sacrifices the lyricism and humor which are integral to both the story and to Guido's personality. There are a few truly harrowing scenes, but the violence and politics are largely external to the story--Benigni assumes that we know all that already, and the film...
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...
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