Nice effects though.

Fantastic!

Best movie ever!

Absolutely Brilliant!

Malena is an excellent film if one realizes the camera is seeing the world through the eyes of 12 year old Renato. It is a bit cockeyed, however, if one assumes that the camera is showing the real world. For example, when Renato's father is asked to discipline his son, he is shown using futile, feminine-like slaps while threatening a beating. But this is Renato's view of his father and should not be taking as an actual depiction of the father.Understanding that what you see is Renato's take on the world and not the actual world is difficult. There is no narrative by Renato. Usually, the camera is not positioned where Renato is but observes his behavior from a distance. Often, there are scenes in which Renato is not even present. However, by the time Renato is shown rescuing Malena while parachuting in with a blazing gun, it should be obvious that camera is showing what is in Renato's mind, not an objective view of the world.Once it is understood, that we are seeing what Renato understands, the somewhat cuckoo behavior of Malena, the townspeople, officials, and others makes sense. Otherwise, as other reviewers have noted, the film is not a representative slice of life. However, it is a very good representation of what a horny adolescent might think

The movie focused on a worthless boy who fell in so called «Love» with a worthless woman (((whose husband left her alone to go fight the meaningless war. Her husband cared for other people more than his own wife. He knew that his wife would become a whore someday if he leave her alone with those meaningless people without a non-deaf person and enough money.))) but it seems that Malena doesn't even know that that boy exists; The boy doesn't have the courage to tell her how bad he loves to f**k her soft white ass up, so the boy starts masturbating. Masturbating, masturbating and masturbating. «He» masturbated and «They» masturbated. Everyone masturbated!The boy's father finds his son having Malena's panties in his mouth, so he gets beaten up by his father!The boy's father finds out that his son's penis has grown longer and thicker, so he take him to a place full of bi**hes, where he can choose who to f**k!They tell Malena's father that your daughter is a whore; Her father says OK!Malena has no more money now. So she become a Whore! -As for the boy, still masturbating!Malena gets beaten up by those meaningless people in the public, so she leaves the town! Her father? Doesn't hear her! The boy? Watching his «LOVE!» gets beaten up. His reaction? Still watching... . Is he a true Lover? Of course!Malena is leaving the town - the boy? Watching...Her husband comes back to the town with only one hand (left one), looking for his wife, but his wife is gone now, so he go to find her and take a her back to where she was.The next film: Malena comes back to the town with his husband arm to arm, and starts a new life with him and with the best people she has ever faced!Result: Sucked.

What ending would you choose for this film? Should the audience stone to death Sicilian women? Filled with jealousy, religious hypocrisy, demonology, and the original scapegoating myth institutionalized, these women are ready to kill life and beauty to protect themselves from the truth. And what is the truth they so abhor? Puberty! The shocking moment made by everyone, when they discover the universe exploding between their thighs! Alas! Not a single adult in this mythical town in Sicily appears to recall the full force of this primal condition. Instead they suffer the conformity, denial, rejection, or substitution of this astonishing discovery. They make leaders, wars, schools, religions, cultures and of course children. They entrench insidious traditions and dangerous rituals. All of which floats by Amoruso Renato, our puberty struck hero, like an aria from a great opera, out the window, above the ornate stone buildings, across romantic plazas, over the endless azure Mediterranean and into the ever golden Sicilian sky. No one is spared his scrutiny, not the cowardly men with their machismo, nor the vicious women with their "virtue". Why? This boy is watching and he is awake. It seems the only memory of puberty still living in his Sicilian town, circa 1940, as World War II erupts, is the perfume of a lovely woman: "Malena". Malena, a mystery woman walks through town, not only awakening the desire of our young Romeo, but also that of his entire group of friends, who agree to include him in a very special "men's club" dedicated to their lust and her adoration, even though he is only twelve years old and still wearing short pants. But Renato's awakening is filled with consternation and loss. Malena is the object of all the unmet desires, fantasies, lusts and jealousies of his entire town. What can he do? She's the epicenter of gossip. She incites the memory of the original discovery and embodies the danger of all its possibilities. Her existence calls into question the dead ends chosen by most of the populace. No one but Renato seems concerned that no man will hire her as she's a danger to his wife, nor any woman sell her food in the market, because she's a persona non grata. All insist her virtue is compromised. She's forced to go to court to protect herself, then becomes the mark of her lawyer, who wants his payment in more than a pound of flesh. Malena is not the first woman to consider marrying a buffoon, hoping it will protect her, but even that is denied. The lawyer is under the control of his mother who refuses the object of her son's rape, the protection of his name in marriage. All doors close upon her. The war progresses. Finally she falls to the degradation projected upon her. She sells her flesh for food. Then falls further… This is not a coming of age story, nor a memory film, filled with longing and regret which smacks of the great fish story, about the one which got away. Nor is it a morality play about Sicily, full of life and beauty but suffering from a blood curse long before the fascist period descends. Malena flies above and beyond these genres to scenes which reveal the human soul. Who is brave enough to look their own desire in the face? Where is the dignity allowed a person desecrated by scapegoating? Who is courageous enough to remember their own lack of courage? There is a triple surprise ending, not to be revealed, which proves it is a true tragedy/ comedy. No matter. See it. Re-see it. It is great film!

Malèna is a 2000 Italian romantic drama film starring Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro. It was directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore from a story by Luciano Vincenzoni In 1941, Renato was 13 years old and although the world was at war, nothing ever happened in his sleepy village in Sicily. Until the day he discovered something that would change his life forever... Malena, the beautiful young war widow who was the obsession of every man and the envy of every woman. Because of her, Renato will come to learn all of life's lessons and find himself in places he never could have imagined. Despite Bellucci's strong presence in a role with little dialog, the central character never really comes alive in any way interesting enough to give her ordeal much genuine pathos.