The Life Ahead

2020
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94 mins
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A Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her in this Italian... More

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The Life Ahead is available to stream in New Zealand... More now on Netflix.

The Life Ahead | Ratings & Reviews

"Ponti fills this adaptation of the Romain Gary novel with an abundance of empathy, illustrating how all of us are nursing invisible psychic wounds, but the execution is so gauzy it never quite connects."

Screen DailyScreen Daily

"The film, modest and often maudlin on its own storytelling terms, runs on a current of beyond-the-screen devotion that makes it compelling. Without that unquantifiable x-factor presence in the frame, it’s hard to say what reason this Netflix release would really have for being."

VarietyVariety

"With its tough-minded characters from divergent cultures finding a common bond despite their differences, the film doesn’t deliver much in the way of surprises, but it turns out to be a starker and more honest piece of work than it might initially seem."

Slant MagazineSlant Magazine

"The Life Ahead is compelling enough to make the by-the-numbers narrative worth telling, if only because with such fine-tuned performances at its center, it deserves to be told."

IndieWireIndieWire

"While it is unabashedly sentimental and at times goes over the top with the symbolic melodramatic devices, it is a beautifully shot and heartwarming film, and the 86-year-old Loren is magnificent..."

Chicago Sun-TimesChicago Sun-Times

"Slipping into the flavorful Neapolitan accent of her early years, Loren creates a warm-blooded, grounded character, whose feistiness ebbs slowly as the ravages of age, ill health and painful memory take hold."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

"The actress is absolute bliss in her new Italian drama, The Life Ahead."

New York PostNew York Post

The Life Ahead | Details

Runtime
94
Genre
Drama
Country of origin
Italy

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