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The Tiger and the Snow Reviews
I absolutely loved it and am looking for it to show watch it again with my wife. Saw it about 10 years ago and remember it to be very touching, and liking it even better than La vita es bella
This must be the least funny and least entertaining thing I have ever seen. The main character is a goddamn creep. Moreover, I'd love to believe that someone who has lost their mind is not considered to be funny. The cherry on top: the characters poems are horrible and meaningless. Just like all the things he's talking about throughout the movie.
It is fascinating to see how clueless the professional critics can be. Their need to fit a film or an actor into a clearly defined category can cause them all to completely miss the point. These are some of the same people who called "The Martian" a musical comedy. Most of the professional reviews are based on narrow-minded presumptions about the characters, or the actors, or the genre itself. Their lack of insight and creativity shows why they are critics and not creators. This movie is not a "mad-cap comedy" or a typical romance. It is certainly not a historical drama. To me, it is a light-hearted tragedy about a man with very few obviously redeemable characteristics, whose annoying narcissistic obsession conceals his own selfless devotion to others, sometimes from others, and sometimes from himself. It weaves between being frustrating, funny, annoying, inspiring, heart-wrenching, heart warming, devastating and hopeful. If you view it like an editor or a film critic, then you miss the experience. But judging by the audience reaction, most people are able to see the beauty of this work. It is too deep a film for those whose job is to be either unimpressed or offended. But for thoughtful members of the human race, this is a brilliant and inspiring film with lessons, humour and hope for all.
A passionate story that shows a poetic meaning of love. Brilliant, exciting. Benigni is a master.
If there is anything that this movie proves, it is that critics are idiots. I have watched this film several times with different people, and we loved it every time. This is a tragic-comedy that is relatable and inspiring. Poetic love amid the mundane horrors of war and military occupation. Keats and Nietzsche, flowers and tanks.
Really? only 17% R.T? I know these reviews are my personal thoughts on the movie, but really I think this movie offered a great amount of sharp and clever laughs as well as having it's moments of tenderness.
+que poética... calló en mis manos porque la tenía mi papa entre sus películas, la vi sin luz y la disfruté un mundo...
What was funny and genuine in Life is beautiful becomes boring and unrealistic in The tiger and the snow. There is only one small twist in the end that might compensate for the two hours spent watching the film.
watching the film, I did feel it was very disappointing compared to the previous masterpiece by Benigni, "Life is Beautiful". but what I really enjoyed about it was the sweet and innocent comedy of the film. there was no gross out humor, no dirty jokes, just clean jokes. I like the film. it has its flaws, but anything that has a Tom Waits song as the main theme, as well as having Roberto Benigni as the star, I'll take it.
I was excited to see La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow) because I love Roberto Benigni, but I knew not to get my hopes up too high because it wasn't critically well received and I knew I couldn't compare it to his cinematic masterpiece La Vita E Bella (Life is Beautiful). That problem gave me standards too high for Johnny Stecchino (Johnny Toothpick), but even though critics hated his version of Pinocchio I loved it so I didn't expect to dislike it either. La tigre e la neve wasn't really what I expected at all. It proved short on comedy and was rarely funny, succeeding more in the dramatic area. Yet it felt at times like it tried to be a comedy, but its sequence of pre-Baghdad romantic comedy is lacking in humour in originality. It all feels too forced, and so until the story kicks off into its Baghdad setting the film just doesn't have enough positive qualities to really go anywhere. Also, and this is only problematic because I don't speak Italian, the actors in La tigre e la neve speak a bit too fast and since I had to read subtitles to keep up with it so that the acting was genuine instead of being as savaged as it was in his previous film Pinocchio where the dubbing was the worst possible in existence. It's somewhat difficult to keep up with the pace the actors talk at for a while, and the more slow readers of the crowds may find that on that basis single handily that La tigre e la neve is not a film they have enjoyed. Also, the story suffers from the fact that much of the context isn't clarified until the last scene in the film which leaves an unsatisfying ambiguity to the film. And lastly, the plot of La tigre e la neve is quite a retread of the story in La Vita e Bella, and while that is undeniably one of the single greatest movies I have ever seen in my life it means that the originality in La tigre e la neve isn't all that much unfortunately. Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami manage to write a few surprises into the story here and there, but the story is largely a retread which is pretty strange because La Vita e Bella was an eccentric film that walked a tricky line in the first place, so to re-explore that material is to like a literal example of reinventing the wheel, albeit to a lesser extent than the concept actually is. But even though the material has many bumps in it, riding the exceptional directing talent that Roberto Benigni helms, La tigre e la neve succeeds in many areas. Once the story changes its context to Baghdad, it kicks off. It becomes compelling and meaningful, and from that point on the protagonist becomes a character easy to care about following through his misadventures in occupied Baghdad during the Iraq war. Eventually it evolves into a passionate romantic drama against the complex dramatic backdrop of facing death, and while it is only sporadically funny La tigre e la neve does manage to ties its story together about an hour in and transition into becoming a better film than it seemed to be at first, and much better than it could have been. It isn't as funny as you would hope, but there is no denying the effect of the dramatic themes as well as some of the humourous moments such as the satirical look at American troops. Many Americans deemed it offensive, but since it was their own troops who invaded Iran they should be willing to face whatever criticism and satire they are dealt for the actions of their military and government. I'm probably simplifying things, but El tigre e la neve is barely as offensive as many melodramatic critics will tell you, and it isn't half as bad either because only Roberto Benigni can handle a plot that many have deemed "ludicrious" and make it actually believable. And visually, La tigre e la neve is a great experience. The scenery is flawlessly convincing of its setting, and considering the real drama going on during the occupation of Baghdad it makes the whole experience a lot more convincing and therefore more dramatically effective, and it is all shot with some beautifully smooth cinematography which is astounding in quality and is strongly atmospheric. And combined with the beautiful Academy Award nomination worthy musical score and a song by Tom Waits in his cameo, it succeeds from an auditory perspective as well as a visual one making it an all round successfully atmospheric venture into the heart of themes of war and love in one of the most complex fashions that only Robert Benigni himself could actually handle with such gusto and success. Roberto Benigni's lead performance in La tigre e la neve proved to be packed with the same kind of talent that won him the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in La Vita e Bella, even though it doesn't come as close since I deem that to be the greatest acting performance by anyone in the history of cinema. In La tigre e la neve he has all the appropriate energy for the dramatic context of the film while also maintaining his natural comedic heart as he journeys through the story, and he directs himself to another grand performance. Nicoletta Braschi's performance doesn't have much screen time, but when she is around her beautiful smile lively face manages to add a lot of spirit to the film, and her chemistry with Roberto Benigni is good. All in all, La Tigre e la neve fails to match up to the immensely successful heights reached by Roberto Benigni's Academy Award winning feature La Vita e Bella, but once it improves in its second act it becomes a memorable experience as a complicated story and a visually striking film.
Le Tigre et la Neige - The Tiger and the Snow is a marvelous, warm yet bittersweet comedic look at life, love and war. Roberto Begnigni with his muse Nicoletta Braschi are a couple who are estranged and have two daughters. Jean Reno plays a friend of theirs who returns to Bagdad and comes to a tragic end. Recociliation may occur after the wife is seriously injured while in Bagdad with the friend. The husband comes to her side and shows desperate hope that she'll recover and she does but apparently unaware that he was at her side until much later when back home and we see the moment she revived occur in this very different context and her realization of something she remembered and/or experienced. 10/10 I disagree with alleged critics G. Allen Johnson, V.A. Musetto, Kevin Thomas, and the others who cannot seem to find anything positive to say about this film. Fire all of them.
Watched this movie in Italian class. And I thought it was really good. The scenery in this film is so beautiful. If you don't like romantic comedies then as an american who has never been to Italy or Iraq you will defineteley enjoy the visually striking scenery.The story is touching, and a few comedic scenes keeps the movie light and not too tragic. It also has a really good twist in the end. Great romantic film to watch with a S.O. I also love the theme song by tom waits. I don't understand why the critics were so negative about this film. Italian cinema definitely has way better standards then American films. This movie is a 10/10.
A notable example of a movie that the critics got totally wrong.
This movie is the picture of unconditional love and very well made. Roberto Benigni is a romantic movie-making genius. His wife is the leading actress in all of his films.
the ending was great. The begining was quite confusin., i thought benigni was cheating on his girl friend. But actually, he doesnt have another girlfriend or cheating neither. He married with the girl he loves.
This is such a well made film. Chick flick, hell. It's just a great movie.
Très beau film, plein de poésie. Encore une fois Roberto Benigni fait mouche. C'est simple, plein d'espoir. Bravo maestro !
While this isn't a perfect film, it is quite charming. What I didn't like about the film was, unfortunately, the editing is a little unfocused as we never really can tell when a day passes or what exactly is going on at times. That said, Benigni is wonderfully funny and the story is absolutely sweet. Apparently based off of Sleeping Beauty, Benigni spins a semi-light, semi-dark tale about a woman injured in an Iraq bombing and one man's attempt to revive her. What ensues are both hilarious antics and dark scenarios. Mixed together we are greeted with a wonderful film that, sadly, is a little disjointed and unfocused at times. However these can be ignored, especially for a little anti-war message slipped in here and there.