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The Life Ahead

2020 · 94 min · Director: Edoardo Ponti ★ IMDb 6.8 · 16,637 ratings

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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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The Life Ahead (2020) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 35%, Sadness 25%, Love 15%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

15%Love
  1. Love15%
  2. Hope15%
  3. Relief10%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Empathy, Sadness, Love. Genres: Drama. AI estimate.

Is it worth watching?

Consider this title if you are looking for Empathy, Sadness and Love. Its IMDb rating of 6.8/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 69/100.

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Emotional journey

AI · from subtitles
  • Empathy
  • Love
  • Sadness

Not enough subtitle evidence

No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Love

Dominant emotion: Hope

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Empathy
Love
Sadness
Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 28 %, then peaks around 93 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityEmpathyLoveSadness
2.5 %≈ 2′Tension50 %33 %17 %18 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Empathy48 %40 %14 %25 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Empathy48 %44 %23 %31 %
17.5 %≈ 16′Love51 %41 %38 %30 %
22.5 %≈ 21′Love45 %31 %35 %15 %
27.5 %≈ 26′Hope36 %28 %23 %8 %
32.5 %≈ 31′Tension39 %34 %21 %13 %
37.5 %≈ 35′Empathy45 %43 %30 %19 %
42.5 %≈ 40′Empathy53 %53 %35 %34 %
47.5 %≈ 45′Sadness59 %59 %35 %49 %
52.5 %≈ 49′Empathy63 %61 %36 %51 %
57.5 %≈ 54′Empathy70 %66 %44 %56 %
62.5 %≈ 59′Sadness69 %64 %46 %56 %
67.5 %≈ 63′Hope63 %56 %35 %51 %
72.5 %≈ 68′Sadness64 %56 %29 %54 %
77.5 %≈ 73′Empathy63 %56 %35 %50 %
82.5 %≈ 78′Empathy66 %61 %53 %49 %
87.5 %≈ 82′Love76 %70 %65 %57 %
92.5 %≈ 87′Sadness76 %65 %61 %55 %
97.5 %≈ 92′Love70 %53 %60 %40 %
Cinderella

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

AI reading of the film’s English subtitles (dialogue and sound cues) — not viewer votes. How we measure ↗

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Cast

Sophia Loren

Madame Rosa

IG
Ibrahima Gueye

RC
Renato Carpentieri

Dr. Coen

DI
Diego Iosif Pirvu

Iosif

AZ
Abril Zamora

Lola

BK
Babak Karimi

Mr. Hamil

MC
Malich Cissé

Nala

SS
Simone Surico

Babu

NV
Nicola Valenzano

Molinari

FC
Francesco Cassano

Carabiniere

Details

Directed by
Edoardo Ponti
Written by
Ugo Chiti, Edoardo Ponti, Romain Gary, Fabio Natale
Type
Movies
Released
2020
Runtime
94 min
Country
Italy
Genres
Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.8 · 16,637 ratings
Feels mostly
Empathy
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