Roberto Benigni's film career is analysed up to the international success of Life is beautiful, in an attempt to highlight common threads running through all of his work and to focus on his specific brand of humour. In particular, the Oscar-winning feature has been defined by its director as "un film sdrammatico", a mixture of slapstick and social commentary, of high and low, of realistic and fantasy, getting close to the Pirandellian concept of humour as "il sentimento del contrario".

The cinema of Roberto Benigni

SANDRELLI A
2001-01-01

Abstract

Roberto Benigni's film career is analysed up to the international success of Life is beautiful, in an attempt to highlight common threads running through all of his work and to focus on his specific brand of humour. In particular, the Oscar-winning feature has been defined by its director as "un film sdrammatico", a mixture of slapstick and social commentary, of high and low, of realistic and fantasy, getting close to the Pirandellian concept of humour as "il sentimento del contrario".
2001
1-85182-630-0
comedy
Tuscany
taboos
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