The Life Ahead

About The Life Ahead

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

The Life Ahead (2020) is a drama film directed by Edoardo Ponti. It runs 94 minutes and was released in November 2020.

Its themes are seaside town, holocaust (shoah) survivor, elderly lady, and street kid. The story is adapted from a novel.

Sophia Loren appears as Madame Rosa, Ibrahima Gueye as Momo, Renato Carpentieri as Dr. Coen, and Diego Iosif Pirvu as Iosif. The screenplay is by Edoardo Ponti and Fabio Natale. Produced by Artemis Rising. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States.

The Revenant, Murder on the Orient Express, and The Jungle Book make useful companions to The Life Ahead. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 586 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.