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Malena Details

2000 Certificate 15
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With MALENA, Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore spins a romantic coming-of-age yarn about love, loss, and courage. Set in 1941 in a tiny village in Sicily, the film focuses on a group of 13-year-old boys who fall madly in love with Malena (Monica Bellucci), the wife of a local soldier. One of the boys, Renato Amoroso (Giuseppe .. Read more

Starring Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
Director Giuseppe Tornatore
Genres Drama, World Cinema

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With MALENA, Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore spins a romantic coming-of-age yarn about love, loss, and courage. Set in 1941 in a tiny village in Sicily, the film focuses on a group of 13-year-old boys who fall madly in love with Malena (Monica Bellucci), the wife of a local soldier. One of the boys, Renato Amoroso (Giuseppe Sulfaro), a dreamer who yearns for freedom from his war-bound village, revels in the exquisite beauty of the enchanting newcomer. He becomes her shadow, following her through the cobble stone streets and spying on her most intimate moments, overwhelmed with romantic longing for the first time. Malena has a magical spellbinding effect on the male villagers; her presence inspires fantasy and escape from their daily lives. But the women of the village, hardened by war, are quick to judge the nubile outsider. Malena becomes the focus of desire and seething jealousy in the town and she is eventually forced to face the female villagers in a bittersweet climax. Reminiscent of Federico Fellini's nostalgic masterpiece AMARCORD, native Sicilian Tornatore revisits the dusty village streets of his childhood where adolescent boys learn about sex, desire, and ultimately, love. Like Tornatore's critically acclaimed CINEMA PARADISO, he bathes the film in the sun-drenched light of his homeland, giving it a dreamy, earthy sensuality and a poetic spirit. Monica Bellucci is a delicious revelation, the camera lingers seductively on her bewitching beauty. Inspired by the story MA L'AMORE NO... by Luciano Vincenzoni.

Starring Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
Director Giuseppe Tornatore
Studio BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 28 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 28 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama, World Cinema
Language DVD: Italian
Blu-ray: Italian
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released Production year: 2000

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DVD: 07 Jan 2002
Blu-ray: 26 Mar 2012

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