After 23 years, the 4K restoration version of the classic film "Beautiful Life" was released in China. The good music, moving emotions and natural performance made many movie fans intoxicated again. Stills from "Beautiful Life".

After 23 years, the 4K restoration version of the classic film "Beautiful Life" was released in China. The good music, moving emotions and natural performance made many movie fans intoxicated again.

"Beautiful Life" stills.

This Italian film premiered in 1997 is directed by Roberto Benini , starring Roberto Benini, Nicoletta Brasky, George Cantalini , etc. It tells the most ordinary life story, but reflects the true love of husband and wife and fatherly love as a mountain. The film won the jury award at the Cannes International Film Festival that year, and won three Oscars: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Actor and Best Soundtrack Awards. The film has a Douban score of 9.5, ranking sixth among the top 250 Douban movies. Some movie fans commented that "Beautiful Life" may be the favorite Italian movie of Chinese audiences.

"When I was a child, I watched this video on the movie channel. There were only clips of my father teaching the little boy to play games in my mind. I watched it again today and understood the historical background of the story. I felt that we were particularly lucky at this moment and were not born in the war era." The audience member Wang Dan said that the little boy lost his father at the end of the film, but she believed that he would definitely live with his father's optimism and strength.

From last year to the present, many imported films such as "The Totoro", "Spirited Away" and "The Pianist on the Sea" have been re-released, giving domestic audiences the opportunity to relive the classics on the big screen. Speaking of the re-release of "Beautiful Life", the film critic "Twenty-Two Island Masters" analyzed that the film is a classic film history, and the re-released box office guarantee. The film is the best in anti-war themes. The fatherly love of the male protagonist Guido is also very inspiring to current family education. "But the most important thing is that when we look back at the long river of twenty years and treat war, national and national suffering with what attitude we should treat war, national and national suffering, "Beautiful Life" guides us to reflect on reality in response to the theme of the times and asks how life should be beautiful."

"The first reaction of many viewers is that fatherly love in the film is very touching, but it is not the most important theme of the film." Film critic Ling Rui believes that anti-war and anti-discrimination are the first themes of the film. "The film has not been successful in opening a bookstore because of the racial discrimination policy implemented by Mussolini : stores that prohibit Jews from entering can be seen everywhere on the streets; the cruelest thing is that the Nazis massacre Jews, not even women and children... The film reflects the suffering experienced by the victims through plot, details and metaphors, which makes the audience more empathetic than using horror and thrilling shots. After watching this movie, we will hope for world peace and no longer war or discrimination."

However, from the box office, the film performed relatively dull, not as good as the previous re-screened "The Pianist at the Sea". As of the evening of January 6, the total box office of the film in four days after its release was less than 30 million yuan. "Twenty-Two Island Masters" believe that the box office of the film is not satisfactory, mainly because many viewers have seen this classic work, and the film does not belong to a film that needs to be experienced in the theater in terms of audio-visuality, so the box office is unlikely to grow significantly.

(Original title: Italian classic movie "Beautiful Life" is re-released 23 years later

Although the box office is dull, movie fans are intoxicated by it)

Source Beijing Daily

Reporter Yuan Yuner

Process editor Liu Weili