Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

An Exercise In Nonsense

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Roberto Benigni follows up his Oscar winning Life is Beautiful with another whimsical romantic comedy. He is Attilio, a college professor, divorced, with two teenage daughters. He is hopelessly in love with Vittorio(Nicoletta Braschi), a writer who travels to Iraq to write a book about Fuad, a poet in exile who is also a friend of Attilio. It is during the Iraqi war and Vittoria is seriously wounded and in a coma. Attilio goes to Baghdad to save the love of his life by posing as a doctor to obtain medicine from the Italian Red Cross. He succeeds and checks back with Fuad with a very sad scene.The American military pick up Attilio, mistakenly believing him to be a terrorist, a funny and comically absurd part of the story.The ending is somewhat of a Hollywood kind of finish to The Tiger and the Snow a passable diversion; but not at the level of Life is Beautiful. One additional plus is Tom Waits singing and playing a piano at a surreal wedding scene.

Before watching the movie i thought it would be a full length comedy like Benigni's first works or maybe an amusing fantasy like Pinocchio.but,it was more like the film "life is beautiful",a romantic comedy that was not as impressive as that one was . it is very similar to life is beautiful:both telling their romantic story in the background of a war and want to be a happy romance. but what the snow and tiger lacks, is it can't provoke the deep emotions of audiences like life is beautiful.most of the movie is based on the Benigni's improvising one liners and it made the movie more like a one man show that in some moments becomes boring,and Jean Reno as an Arab poet is not as interesting as his roles as gangsters and so. but beside these negative points i've made, the tiger and the snow is not a weak movie at all.it has a good sense of humor and is a drama in respect of post-war Baghdad .I really admire Benigni because of his style that tends to add up comedy and fantasy with human subjects.it's a simple story of a childish love to a woman that strangely begins in Italy and keeps on, in Iraq.but this romantic story can't be a lovely and memorable love story like great romances, because Benigni is very far from the character of a importunate lover, he is much more believable in the role of a kind father in the film like his character in the life is beautiful,his best movie.

Wonderful!, Beningni is truly an auteur! This wonderful story is about an Italian poet (Attilio De Giovanni - Benigni) with a beautiful and optimistic way to see life and that is deeply in love with the woman of his dreams (Vittoria - Nicoletta Braschi). When she suddenly appears in the real life!, he makes all what is possible to get her an make her fall in love of him, (and he really makes everything that is possible!!); to the point that the story, which starts in Rome, suddenly takes place in Irak, home of Attilio's best friend and poet Fuad (Jean Reno).This story, as Benigni's La Vita e Bella, shows comedy in the middle of tragical events (the war of Irak); comedy and drama beautifully joined together in one incredible love story. The love, as shown in this movie is so touching that shows the ideal of LOVE, the deepest facts of this feeling from a man to a woman that is represented in this masterpiece of Benigni's.I don't want to compare this film with La Vita e Bella, because i see this film as a complement of a Benigni's saga about love, tragedy and optimism (La Vita e Bella shows the love from father to son in the middle of the Nazi tragical events of world war II against the Jewish; and this film shows the love from a men to a woman in the middle of the actual events of war in Irak).Beautiful movie! totally recommended! 8/10

The protagonist in this film is excellent: not only is he a poet who looks at life unflinchingly, loves it, describes it beautifully and suffers in it, he is also a a doer who manipulates the situations: trying his hardest to make things go his way, and last, but not least, a lover, who reminds one so of that old quote from Desiderata: "Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment, it is perennial as the grass.." I was amazed at the beauty in the film, the small touches of magic and the huge brush strokes of Iraqi landscape which contrasted with the civilized Italian urban scenes. A truly well-executed movie, tender and intelligent, well worth the reading of the subtitles.