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October 05, 2005
Life is Baghdad: Benigni commits another film
AP reports that Roberto Benigni's latest is a comic love story about the war in Iraw: La Tigre e la Neve (The Tiger and the Snow), is "an antiwar statement in Benigni's preferred style - a love story driven by the 52-year-old actor-director's exuberant and sometimes slapstick humour. "If you make a direct argument against the war, it bounces back at you," Benigni said Tuesday as he screened the film in Rome... "I'm aiming to distract, to move people, this is the only thing one can do. It's not that art or movies can save the world ... but they can comfort us." ... In one scene, Benigni's character pulls a fly swatter from a shopping trolley full of looted goods that he has bought from an Iraqi and proclaims: "Here, I've found a weapon of mass destruction."
Posted by pride at October 5, 2005 05:47 AM
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