Malena

2000 "Too young to be a widow, too beautiful to be alone."
7.4| 1h49m| R| en| More Info
Released: 25 December 2000 Released
Producted By: Miramax
Country: United States of America
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During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

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Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike
Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Kirpianuscus one of films by Giuseppe Tornatore. that could be the best definition. because the film has the same special aura, humor, delicacy to explore the detail, mixture of beauty and sadness, melancholy and status of slice from lost golden age. a film about war. and about people. precise manner to create a role who seems be shadow of profound silence by Monica Belucci. impressive performance of Giuseppe Sulfaro. and the inspired atmosphere. a film who use in wise manner the appearances. because it seems be full of sexuality and teenager's dreams, about hate, intolerance and verdicts. in fact, it is only a declaration about small things who defines every day life. cruel. and fascinated. beautiful. and mysterious. a sketch who becomes with each new line fascinating. a film about a meeting. and about first step of a boy in the discover the life.
mingmingbaibaigepi Just watched Malèna again, last time maybe 10 years ago, at that time, I was just addicted to beauty of Monica Bellucci. In Chinese, it is translated to " the beautiful legend of Sicilia ", at last, it is not beautiful but fierce humanities. Beauty is doomed to loneliness and indescribable, the root of evil, sin, lust and purity paradoxically? That is destroyed by the violence and silence from the masses. Gossip and jealousy drive people to be mad. Women self-suggest a beautiful woman must have defect on moral as a silly compensation because they envy the beauty from Malèna they could not possess, but the men, their possessiveness and the repression of reality also drive them to self-suggest , they thought Malèna a lust whore to relief or release their greedy because they could not touch her actually. Boy's sexual fantasy seems quite authentic as we are always doing, we are imagining we did everything with powerful heroism at all times, the sad reality is that we are dispassionate onlookers for the tragedy. Who can tell me why the young boys love maturing woman but they would love Lolita when they get old?
Nishant Nagar Hitler rightly says that"The more I know people, the more I love dogs". And it is also said that we humans are most smart ANIMALS! But at least Animals are not FAKE.It takes an effort to become a true Human but who cares?people are happy to live like animals bcuz it is far easy.Most people with no inner self treat helpless,weak or alone people the same way as alone Malena was treated in this movie.A person with no inner self has a brain with no wisdom!then his brain works the same way as it works for animals no principles nothing just a machine.People who blame others for their own vices are shown in this movie. Yes Malena has an attractive beautiful body but this only the outer part of her, the actual Malena is hiding inside that beautiful body which is far more beautiful but never seen by anyone or no one actually wants to see it!Her beauty has become a curse as it hides all her emotions inside itself and to look that inside it requires an eye of a soul not of a smart intelligent brain.We are not so called human but we are Human we are soul! So Guys watch this movie to examine your self if your are a soul or just a body?
Johan Dondokambey The story first seems as a it's only focused on Renato and the depictions of his wild and childish imaginations while he's jerking off. But slowly and surely the side plot of Malena's life starts to take center focus and becomes the main focus nearing the movie's end. What's nice is that both focuses are depicted accordingly. The movie doesn't take lightly in portraying each sides of the story. It went on wild and crazy on Renato's imagination and on how he almost devoted his adolescent life to stalk on Malena.. Yet the movie also gives a good matured view on the focus of Malena's life. The story plays it nicely on telling how fate seemingly throws in inevitable situations again and again at her life. The movie uses nice touches of editing and fancy fast cuts here and there. We see great usage of camera angles and a lot of close ups focusing on Renato's expressions. The acting is a good work in overall. Playing the lead character Renato, Giuseppe Sulfaro acted out well enough maintaining the sad looks in his character's innocence. Monica Bellucci did well in portraying the expressions needed as a widow in such conditions, although the final conflict shot feels quite lacking.