Roberto Benigni was hailed as a genius in 1999 for his whimsical and magical film 'Life is beautiful', which was about love surviving all adversities in the harsh playground of a Nazi concentration camp. I never liked that film, I felt it was a low and cheap way of playing the 'Love can survive any obstacle' schtick that filmmakers push on us viewers to make us feel all warm inside.
Wife with cancer. Thats been done. Family in car accident near death. Boring. If Roberto Benigni is such a talent then where is he today? Miramax not backing his films anymore?
KAPO made in 1959 by the Gillo Pontecorvo, who would later go on to make the brilliant 'Battle of Algiers', does more with his film about love surviving through all adversities than Mr Benigni could ever throw up for his own film about the harsh realities human beings had to do in order to survive.
I caught this film just as I was going to sleep late one night and stayed up till the early morning riveted on what would become of 'Nicole', a 14 year old Jewish girl who along with her parents are thrown into a concentration camp during WW2. The little lost girl learns to adapt and survive in the camp which eventually leads her to become the 'Kapo' in the title.
'They lied to us' seems to be the motto of this film, as Nicole learns to trust and look after only herself, until she opens up and discovers there is love once more in her awful life.
I will not give too much away about this powerful and totally mesmerizing film, which once again opens up another story of life inside a concentration camp through the eyes of young Jewish girl who grows up quick and becomes a Nazi lackey in the form of a KAPO.
Wife with cancer. Thats been done. Family in car accident near death. Boring. If Roberto Benigni is such a talent then where is he today? Miramax not backing his films anymore?
KAPO made in 1959 by the Gillo Pontecorvo, who would later go on to make the brilliant 'Battle of Algiers', does more with his film about love surviving through all adversities than Mr Benigni could ever throw up for his own film about the harsh realities human beings had to do in order to survive.
I caught this film just as I was going to sleep late one night and stayed up till the early morning riveted on what would become of 'Nicole', a 14 year old Jewish girl who along with her parents are thrown into a concentration camp during WW2. The little lost girl learns to adapt and survive in the camp which eventually leads her to become the 'Kapo' in the title.
'They lied to us' seems to be the motto of this film, as Nicole learns to trust and look after only herself, until she opens up and discovers there is love once more in her awful life.
I will not give too much away about this powerful and totally mesmerizing film, which once again opens up another story of life inside a concentration camp through the eyes of young Jewish girl who grows up quick and becomes a Nazi lackey in the form of a KAPO.