Join us for another ECV Summer Movie Night, hosted by the Sapersteins.

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We'll be watching Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella, 1997)

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Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Actor (Roberto Benigni) and Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.

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A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), meets Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her over with his charm and humor. Eventually they marry and have a son, Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini). Their happiness is abruptly halted, however, when Guido and Giosue are separated from Dora and taken to a concentration camp. Determined to shelter his son from the horrors of his surroundings, Guido convinces Giosue that their time in the camp is merely a game. (Rotten Tomatoes)