Benigni Iraq war comedy film?

[medeak]

Benigni shooting Iraq 'comedy'


Benigni's Holocaust comedy was controversial but won a clutch of awards (pic: Italian Rai3 TV)
Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni is to make a film about the Iraq war.
La Tigre e la Neve (The Tiger and the Snow) is set in Iraq in March 2003 - right at the beginning of the US-led campaign.

In spite of the subject matter, Oscar-winner Benigni intends the film - which is due for release in 2005 - to be a comedy.

Benigni plays the part of a poet who is in Iraq by chance and is caught up in the events.

"War naturally is the background of the film and my character is directly involved in it. This poet ends up in Iraq by pure chance," Benigni told Italian Rai radio. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3704104.stm

[thebigidea]

1. I wish they'd put out that movie he did with Fellini on DVD

[maveric]

2. And he'll be detained and turned away at US airports.

I can see it a comin.