Best actor Comedy of the eighties secondo DeBaser.

❝ “Compagni di Scuola” remains even today a splendid masterpiece, a milestone of Italian cinema barely weakened by its negligible flaws, an extraordinary bourgeois horror disguised as a comedy.

❝ “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” (H.D. Thoreau)

❝ Ivano: 'O famo strano? Jessica: Famolo!

❝ "I was in the dark. There was humidity. Silence. Then, suddenly, someone turned on the light. I don't know if they washed me afterward. Then I saw my mom. Beautiful, gorgeous. It was July 14, 1940. It was the day of my birth."

❝ … This film is a true delirium! It is probably the least known film of Pozzetto, as well as his directorial debut.

❝ The quality of the film is abysmal, with immense peaksof lowbrow humor (see the area of prostitution with a trailer that overturns due to the daring nature of a client with a professional).

❝ "Pinocchio is no more, Pinocchio is no more, Pinocchio is no more, Pinocchio is no more..."

❝ A requiem, Francesco.

❝ Nuti is at his best, he will never reach these levels again.

❝ “Ammazzale che forza, che bocche fameliche che ci hanno...E queste chi le ferma, queste non le ferma più nessuno...”

❝ Short answer: manc po cazz

❝ Written, directed, performed, scored, and edited by the most eccentric of Italian showbiz personalities.

❝ Born in Milan in 1938, the "Molleggiato" Adriano Celentano is still considered the most beloved singer by the Italian population.

❝ Protagonist and visionary of a changing world, Massimo Troisi, speaks to the future with lightness, sweetness, and that shyness that distinguishes him.

❝ "Vincè, I'm gonna kill myself. As they say, better 1 day as a lion than 100 days as a sheep, right? Eh, what's it to me, Tonì, the lion, the sheep, do 50 days as a teddy bear and no one talks about it anymore".

❝ I can honestly say that I have never counted myself among the admirers and supporters of the character and comedy of the late Massimo Troisi, and this film, at times amusing but too banally dull, unfortunately proves me right.

❝ Today, almost thirty years later, “Life is Beautiful” appears to be a distinguished work, despite a few small flaws, radiant.

❝ Behold, “Life is Beautiful”is poetry, pure and simple:

❝ And “Life is Beautiful” is his acme, the masterpiece of cinematic and artistic hypocrisy, where every trait of the script, every line, every whim is subordinated to begging for the viewer’s pity.

❝ Crude comedy from 1992directed and starred by Christian De Sica featuring Renato Pozzetto, not at his best.