2005 · comedy · drama · romance
The Tiger and the Snow
Directed by Roberto Benigni1h 54m2005
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?
Our read: The Tiger and the Snow (2005) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
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