The Tiger and the Snow

Name: The Tiger and the Snow
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, War
Released: December 29, 2006
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 22

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: December 29, 2006

Summary: A love-struck Italian poet finds himself in Iraq at the outset of the American-led invasion.

Director: Roberto Benigni

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance, War

Runtime: 110 min

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Deborah Young

Like an Iraq-war mirror image of "Life Is Beautiful," actor-director Roberto Benigni's The Tiger and the Snow re-runs the successful structure and comic persona of the 1998 Oscar-winning film in a trippy fantasia about a poet who follows his love to hell and, in this happier ending, back. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

A winsome, charming and irresistibly romantic picture, and also a profoundly self-involved one that has nothing whatever to do with Iraq or war or much of anything else besides the butterfly-like spirit of Roberto Benigni. But I guess that combination makes it a great holiday selection choice for certain disheveled, liberal family groups. Mine, for instance. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Benigni clearly intends to make some impassioned statements about the futility of war, the power of romance, the enduring strength of optimism. However, the once-appealing innocence of his exuberant persona has become curdled over time. Read full review

Ed Halter

The results are neither profound nor funny, but merely uncomfortable. A hubristic failure at risky humor, The Tiger and the Snow provides Benigni his own Michael Richards moment. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

A scorching affront to Italians, Iraqis and the intelligence of movie audiences everywhere. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Remember that manic, rambling Oscar acceptance speech, when Benigni leapt around the auditorium? That might have been charming for two or three minutes, but imagine two hours of it. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

The longer the movie goes on, the more annoying Benigni's infantile behavior becomes. Read full review

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Jul 18, 2009

Only if you have yourself been hopeless and deeply in love will you be able to understand the complexity of someone like Begnini's character in this film. He loves his wife. And, he loves her completely. Indeed, he may have strayed. Nonetheless, his commitment to this woman is all he Only if you have yourself been hopeless and deeply in love will you be able to understand the complexity of someone like Begnini's character in this film. He loves his wife. And, he loves her completely. Indeed, he may have strayed. Nonetheless, his commitment to this woman is all he now knows. She is his everything, his every thought. She completes his day, his night, his every breath...and, without her. As he said to the old Arab pharmacist, there is nothing left...on this earth.… Expand