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The Life Ahead
Directed by
Edoardo Ponti
PG-13
2020
1h 34m
Drama
6.8
92%
77%
6.7
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In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
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Where to Watch The Life Ahead
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Cast of The Life Ahead
Sophia Loren
Madame Rosa
Ibrahima Gueye
Momo
Renato Carpentieri
Dr. Coen
Diego Iosif Pirvu
Iosif
Massimiliano Rossi
Ruspa
Abril Zamora
Lola
Babak Karimi
Mr. Hamil
Malich Cissé
Nala
Simone Surico
Babu
Nicola Valenzano
Molinari
Francesco Cassano
Carabiniere
Edoardo Ponti
Director / Screenplay / Executive Producer
Romain Gary
Novel
Ugo Chiti
Screenplay
Fabio Natale
Writer
Nicola Serra
Producer
Carlo Degli Esposti
Producer
Marco Camilli
Associate Producer
Luigi Pinto
Associate Producer
Davide Nardini
Associate Producer
The Life Ahead Ratings & Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
Sophia Loren is by far the best reason to see Edoardo Ponti's new Italian-language drama, out now on Netflix. But what a reason it is...
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The raison d'être for watching is Sophia.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
...it's pure in its sentiment, direct but eloquent. And if it draws a few tears, just go with the flow. You may very well need it.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
Loren inhabits the role of Madame Rosa as if it was written for her.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
The Life Ahead has the warm feel of a family affair, and a celebration of not just Loren's contribution in this particular film, but the life, and career, behind her.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Instead of diffusing [Sophia Loren's] legendary features it distills her presence into another sort of beauty, stern and stirring, that befits the woman she's playing in this small but surprising film.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
This picture earns its tear-jerking without becoming treacly. OK, without becoming too treacly. And it has other charming, enlightened components.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
We go in thinking we're about to see a Sophia Loren movie, but instead we get an obnoxious kid, with Loren occasionally stumbling into and out of the frame with a vacant expression on her face.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The attempt's the thing, and watching these two tough customers wrestle for control, within the film and on the screen, is worth the monthly subscription.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
"The Life Ahead" might be a familiar story, but as a showcase for Loren's sensuality, star power and unfailing instincts, it feels both classic and exhilaratingly new.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Directed with delicacy by Loren's son Edoardo Ponti... the Netflix drama avoids getting saccharine by offering an authentic slice of life in an Italian port city...
Slant Magazine
Chris Barsanti
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Under her son's direction, Loren is fierce and funny...the 86-year-old commands the screen...
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
A triumphant and compelling piece of filmmaking.
New York Post
Johnny Oleksinski
This is not only a perfect pairing of actress and part, but some good old-fashioned family bonding.
TheWrap
Steve Pond
The heart of the film is in the connection between a 12-year-old boy and an 86-year-old woman, and Loren and Gueye make that relationship rich and touching enough to give life to the movie that surrounds it.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
"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.
ABC News
Peter Travers
Get out your handkerchiefs. The legendary Sophia Loren, 86, returns to the screen after a decade to play a Holocaust survivor who raises the children of prostitutes. You won't find a false note in Loren's magnificent performance. Just sit back and behold.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Audiences will warm to the handsomely crafted Italian-language Netflix feature, a sentimental yet satisfying labor of love.
Variety
Guy Lodge
At first blush, the sheer exhilaration of watching Loren is so immense that one initially forgets to parse her acting at all - which is either the price or privilege of genuinely iconic status.
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