One last time with feeling!
As Batch 1 sadly draws to a close Charlie and Francesco attempt to answer a tough question. What are we allowed to laugh about? Joined by Archie Wolfman (he/him), they discuss their feelings about the controversially saccharine Life is Beautiful (dir. Roberto Benigni, 1997).
All three alternate films seek to reckon with the legacy of Fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust. These alternate films include the sometimes-funny-sometimes-horrifying Seven Beauties (dir. Lina Wertmüller, 1975), the testimonial of adolescence in Fascist Italy, Amarcord (dir. Federico Fellini, 1973), and an odd-couple road movie featuring the son of an SS officer and an old Holocaust survivor, The Interpreter (dir. Martin Šulík, 2018).
