Life Is Beautiful vs Patients
Life Is Beautiful has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 7.4/10 for Patients). Patients is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 1h 56m. Life Is Beautiful is the older of the two (1997 against 2017). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Life Is Beautiful
Patients| Life Is Beautiful | Patients | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.4/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 2017 |
| Length | 1h 56m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | Italy | – |
| Director | Roberto Benigni | Grand Corps Malade, Mehdi Idir |
| Main cast | Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric | Dominique Blanc, Yannick Renier, Alban Ivanov, Florence Muller, Rabah Nait Oufella |
Synopsis
Life Is Beautiful
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Patients
After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a…
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