FUNNY MAN FALLS FLAT

The Tiger and the Snow

Laughter during wartime breeds discontent. Case in point: Italian funnyman Roberto Benigni’s latest outing as writer-director-star of The Tiger and the Snow tells a quirky love story set immediately after the United States’ invasion of Iraq in 2003. It has Benigni’s sweet comedic sensibility and unpretentious soul, but delivers a jolt to common sense and softens the brutality of this latest overseas incursion into fantastical fluff.

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