Life Ahead, The

[Netflix only] A somber, moving, well-acted, realistic, raw, down-to-earth, 94-minute remake of Moshe Mizrahi's 1977 film and based on Romain Gary's novel "The Life Before Us" in which a streetwise, angry, lonely, orphaned, 12-year-old, Senegalese Muslim immigrant (Ibrahima Gueye), who resorts to selling cocaine for a greedy drug dealer (Massimiliano Rossi), reluctantly agrees to live with an elderly, traumatized, PTSD-afflicted Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute (Sophia Loren) who cares for children (Babak Karimi, et al.) of prostitutes (Abril Zamora, et al.) in a small coastal town in Italy and finds a friendship they both desperately need.
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