Life Is Beautiful vs Venice Calling
Life Is Beautiful has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 5.9/10 for Venice Calling). Venice Calling is the shorter watch at 1h 35m compared with 1h 56m. Life Is Beautiful is the older of the two (1997 against 2019). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Life Is Beautiful
Venice Calling| Life Is Beautiful | Venice Calling | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.4/10 | ★ 5.9/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 2019 |
| Length | 1h 56m | 1h 35m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | Italy | – |
| Director | Roberto Benigni | Ivan Calbérac |
| Main cast | Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric | David Salles, Nicolas Briançon, Benoît Poelvoorde, Nicolas Chupin, Valérie Bonneton |
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.
Venice Calling
Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more beautiful like that. When the girl who pleases him more than anything invites him to Venice for the holidays, he is overjoyed. Only problem, his parents decide to accompany him - This is the story of a teenager born into an unclassifiable family, the story of a first love, miraculous and fragile…
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