The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?
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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
The title of this comment refers to one of the longest extended movie clips included in any 21st Century film, which is arguably the "good" part of THE TIGER AND THE SNOW. The merely "bad" aspects are the "bonuses" on the DVD, which include two of the most pompous and pretentious periods of prattle from the one-hit wonder (LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL) husband-wife tag-team, director Roberto Benigni (the pitiful poet character Attilio de Giovanni) and producer Nicoletta Braschi (the mostly-comatose wishy-washy enigma character Vittoria) in two one-on-one interviews totaling 27 minutes and 44 seconds). Though the couple agree in labeling Roberto the Italian Charlie Chaplin, he's actually closer to the Boot's Robin Williams--on a REALLY bad day. And speaking of Williams, this misfire can't tie GOOD MORNING, V!ETNAM!'s shoelaces. While the latter effort constitutes a primer on how to do a modern bittersweet war movie with humorous touches, Benigni's embarrassing collage of ugly family inside jokes falls flatter than SPRINGTIME FOR H!TLER. In anything with even a 10% resemblance to reality, the American check-point soldiers would have wasted Attilio's ass three times over, and rightfully so. But go ahead, all you stuffed shirts awarding this a "10" because you don't have the guts to say the emperor has no clothes (or nothing more than white boxers here); your penance will be to sit through another five or six misshapen grotesques from the first couple of farcical fluff!
"The tiger and the snow" is a well-composed and well-crafted movie. I think it's truly remarkable that this movie can incorporate both comedy, drama, romance and political statements without cracking at the edges because of it. A film I saw recently, "Life aquatic", tried to incorporate drama into a comedy, which in my opinion didn't go through that well. The film was fairly funny, but the drama sequences seemed a bit detached, and there wasn't enough drama to properly care for the characters. "The tiger and the snow" gives us both a funny film, and a film where we can care for the characters. It also has beautiful and very poetic dialogue, which I only recall from classics such as "A streetcar named desire" and "Once upon a time in America". I think "Life is beautiful" is a good movie, but this one is even better!
I missed Roberto Benigni & and I miss his good movies .. and not since "A Beautiful Life" he has directed a successful movie.This movie is poetic and I wish I speak Italian to understand all the nice poetic speeches and the Italian poems.As in "A Beautiful Life" Benigni mixes the tragedy with a light comedy that is funny and touching in the same time.His performance was good .. Jean Reno was good .. Nicoletta Braschi wasn't bad.It is a good movie that you will fell in love with it if you are a Benigni fan ..and will at least like it if not.
This film seems to be made for Roberto Benigni's fans. If you didn't like his previous films, don't bother with this one. The other comment that must be made is: this is not "Life is Beautiful". That film was simply wonderful, and I don't think it will ever find a match. Regardless this issue, "La tigre e la neve" is a very good movie. Benigni continues to show his amazing ability in order to mix comedy with drama, making the story very interesting and enjoyable. As a negative issue, we can point out that Benigni is a bit repetitive (it's his way of communicating), and might be a bit annoying for some people. The plot is quite simple: a man discovers that the woman he loves is seriously injured in a hospital in Baghdad, during American invasion in '03. He decides to travel to Iraq in order to help his loved one. The film has a good script, and is adequately seasoned with very good photography, music, and an unavoidable message of hope. Highly recommended for people looking for a story plenty of romanticism with a conceptually brilliant ending.