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Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It's 1940 Castelcuto, Sicily. Mussolini has just declared war on France and Britain. Renato is a 12 year old boy. He gets a new bike and joins a group of local boy. They are obsessed with Nino's new wife Malèna Scordia (Monica Bellucci). He starts spying on her and having erotic dreams about her. Her husband dies in the war. In the town, the men are obsessed and the women are jealous. Rumors of affairs with married men lead to a court trial.If this is a story about Malèna, it could be something great. However, she's really more of an object and what a beautiful object she is. This is really a coming of age story about Renato. We're seeing Malèna through his eyes. In many ways, he has to be more compelling as a character played by a more charismatic actor. He needs to have friends to play with. He needs to have connections other than an imaginary one with Malèna. There has to more satisfying conversations. He's obsessed with a naked Monica Bellucci. Who isn't? That probably is worth some extra points somehow.

Sicily, 1940. A teenage boy (Giuseppe Sulfaro) is initiated into manhood when his friends introduce him to the glories of Malena (Monica Belluci), the most beautiful woman in town. Sulfaro becomes obsessed, following her wherever she goes on his bike, and he even spies on her in her home. His obsession is not the only one, as much as he wishes and wants to believe it were - the whole town worships her. Every man wants to have her, and every woman is deeply jealous of that fact. And, man, does that make life hard for Malena - her husband is fighting the war in Africa, and the rumors are flying, making life nearly impossible. Sulfaro might see her as a sex object initially, but the more he observes the more he sympathizes. This film begins as an enjoyable comedy, but it grows deeply serious. The climax is one of the harshest, most potent sequences I've seen in a long while. One will recognize the nostalgic tone of the movie if you're familiar with Cinema Paradiso, but I think this is actually a stronger film. Excellent.

At last I have been able to watch the complete version of "Malena". It is a simple story, but one which speaks volumes about people, about love, while telling the story of a Sicilian town caught up in Mussolini's war, of a boy who becomes a young man, of a city ravaged not only by war but also by jealousy, greed and hatred; but above all it is the story of a woman who, at least in our eyes, stays courageous and never loses her dignity. The story unfolds through the eyes of the boy, in his words and through his eyes. Monica Bellucci, who portrays the woman, is not afraid to stop looking drop-dead gorgeous and to look ugly when the story requires it. She plays the part using not only her body (which for many actresses would be enough) but above all her dark eyes, speaking very little. All in all a picture of humanity, at its worst and at its best, told through the story of a city, of Sicilians, of Italians, indeed of all people, and a film which should be watched more than once, if possible in the original language.

Malèna (2000) is directed by Giuseppe Tornatore known for his (1988) classics "Cinema Paradiso", (1995) "The Star Maker" and (1998) "The Legend of 1900"Giuseppe Tornatore - His name is not as famous as His movies to the Cinema Lovers from around the world, Like other Italian Directors. May be his name is difficult to remember and pronounce or may be he has not been directing films as frequently as other directors do. But I think he is the most genuine, genius, Romantic & poetic filmmaker ever born in Italy. And If I will be the one to make the list of top 100 movies ever made, I will include most of the films by "Giuseppe Tornatore" in that List. While watching "Malèna", I felt like I am traveling through the time, The patters & transition from my childhood to teenage were very similar to this film. The love which I did not know how to express, The sensual and social awakening I was going through. As the film "Malèna" is being narrated from the point of view of teen age "Renato" and incidents are taking place on the backdrop of 1940s as Italy enters into World War II through Mussolini's fascist belief and obsession. The same I experienced in Gaya, Bihar during 1993-1998 when similar fascist strategy of Laloo Government who put the whole state in the fire of Naxilsm and my obsession or fascination or possibly the first Love with my class teacher. Who was as beautiful as "Malèna". It was the time of sensual and social awakening and exploration except I was not as daring as "Renato" but in many ways not less than that. The most important thing in a movie is when an Audience can see himself in the Movie as one of the characters. The Co-coherence. As he himself is on the screen, he himself speaking all the lines, and he himself feeling all those emotions. When you watch a movie which can give you this kind of experience it means it's a perfect piece of cinematic creation. And I think "Malèna" delivers the similar experience to the all the audience above the age of 10. I think nobody ever forgets "His First bicycle", "His first crush or Love" (Usually Most of the boys have their first crush on a girl quite older to his age.) "And First masturbation imagining woman he has crush on", And at the age when we go through all this we feel no less than "Alexander the Great" or "Robin hood" and any other super hero. This is how adulthood take birth in us long before we become adults. Even for a single second this thought does not appear in our head, that we are still not adult. As we learn to drive bicycle and we feel like flying, the same way we imagine that we are making love to the beautiful woman we are fascinated with and experiencing heaven. But sadly the social structure doesn't allow us to express our most pure and genuine self we experience in the teenage. Even our parents, uncle and all around us has gone through the same in more or less a similar way, But when they catch this expression of us they call it a pervert act. I like the scene in "Malèna" when finally his father takes "Renato" to a brothel where he have sex with a prostitute imaging her as "Malèna". Well it was not necessary, because it can be criticized negatively simple because most people don't use the inner sense. Also that is unacceptable to the most of the social structure in the world. I feel if the society will allow the expressions of childhood and adulthood in it's original form and guide them in a proper way than I believe The Perfect Man will be created to serve the future. The memory of suppression we go through in our childhood lasts very long and by the time we become adults some of us loose half of the excitement to life at its fullest.The Another angle of the film is the dual standard of man dominated society. If there is a beautiful woman, living single or divorced or facing the misery of life. There will be certainly stories about her all over the town. From barber shop to the Meyer's office. She might be called by all the names a man hate to call the most to her sister, daughter or mother. "Malèna" represent that woman, "Every Man want to sleep with "Malèna" But nobody has respect for her expect the teenage "Renato".I hope the film will take you the same joy ride through the time, As it took it to me. And now I feel like meeting the same "Teacher" from my Childhood, I wanna say her the same way Renato Says to "Malèna" in the end of the movie "Buona fortuna, Signora Malena", I will say "Good to see you dear teacher, You are still as Beautiful you were long time ago." When you had your first bicycle, When you had your first crush on a beautiful Woman, When you had your first Masturbation. When everything around you were changing, while you were changing, If all those memories have faded, Watch "Malèna", It is a poetry written on Celluloid.