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Tiger and the Snow, The
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 10 critic reviews
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Based on 13 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Foreign | Romance | War
Written by:
Roberto Benigni
Vincenzo Cerami
Directed by: Roberto Benigni
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 29, 2006
DVD: May 8, 2007
Running Time: 115 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Language(s): Arabic / English / Italian
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Roberto Benigni, Jean Reno, Nicoletta Braschi, Tom Waits, Emilia Fox, Gianfranco Varetto, Giuseppe Battiston, and Lucia Poli
A love-struck Italian poet finds himself in Iraq at the outset of the American-led invasion.
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What The Critics Said
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Variety 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 >Salon.com 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 >New York Daily News 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 >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Perhaps a greater passage of time was needed to provide a more effective historical perspective, but "Tiger" has a bigger problem with a dramatic structure that sags conspicuously in the middle, never to completely correct itself.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Benigni's artfully composed images are as empty as his political convictions.
Read Full Review >Village Voice 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 >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
It doesn't seem possible that a film with both the formidable Reno and Waits could be all bad, but The Tiger and the Snow is precisely so.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
A scorching affront to Italians, Iraqis and the intelligence of movie audiences everywhere.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
The longer the movie goes on, the more annoying Benigni's infantile behavior becomes.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle 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 >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Lee XXX XXXXX gave it a10:
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.
Dan F gave it a9:
I couldn't believe it when I saw this in the lowest rated movies...I now have undeniable proof that movie critics are on crack. This was a fantastic, lighthearted, enjoyable movie. I've seen it numerous times, and loved every minute of it.
Vic N. gave it a10:
What fascinates me is the discrepancy between the reviews of some of the users and the oh so knowledgeable, head in the sand "critics". What are they so afraid of? Maybe recognizing what life is really about - a big joke.
Teti G. gave it a9:
I believe this is another piece of art which shows true love. In this movie Benigni tells us another love story. Love can do it all.
Hitchhiker gave it a0:
There's gotta be a ban against fossilized once-tolerable sentimentalist Italian directors! Considering the reality of what's going on in the world today, especially in Iraq, I found the movie not only devoid of any cinematic creativity, artistic integrity or simple charm, but also downright offensive, outdated and moronic_ emotionally and intellectually!
Chelsea R. gave it a9:
What a very sweet romantic movie. Roberto Benigni is a lovable goofball, he is very cute. The comedy is not laugh out loud, it is lighthearted and enjoyable. How can anyone consider Benigni annoying, he might be a little but in a cute kind of way that makes me giddy all over!
Cynthia W. gave it a10:
Beautiful. Powerful. Full of truth. You can never hold back spring...and you can certainly never convince me that either spring or this movie are not charming, warm and utterly enjoyable:).
