Malèna (2000)

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Beautiful movie and beautiful work by Monica Bellucci. Amazing actress and amazing script. Whoever says it`s a bad movie is lying. It`s sweet and at the same time really harsh about the feminine condition.

If I recall it correctly, I saw this movie in the movie theater when it was released and, at the time, I was living in England. There were basically 2 reasons why I wanted to watch this flick. First of all, it was directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and after many years of rather obscure features, it seems that he might have come up with something worthy of ‘Nuovo cinema Paradiso’. The other reason... read more

Es una película interesante sin lugar a dudas, trata sobre las dificultades que muchas veces enfrentan injustamente algunas mujeres solo por el hecho de ser hermosa con una muy particular ambientación en la Italia fascista de los años 40's. Algo que en lo particular me gustó es que si bien podría catalogarse como una "cinta feminista" esta no te vende el feminismo como ideología en ningún m... read more

On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. A beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to a Sicilian town to be with her husband, Nico. He goes off to war, leaving her to the lustful eyes of the men and the tongues of the women.