A beautiful and young war widow begins to provoke a sensual desire amongst the adolescent boys and became the envy of every woman.
18 March 1943, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
8 July 1977, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
18 June 1946, Catania, Sicily, Italy
22 February 1972, Bari, Puglia, Italy
31 July 1938, Lentini, Sicily, Italy
16 January 1940, Cammarata, Sicily, Italy
30 September 1964, Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
February 15, 2010
Malèna barely speaks a word in the film, but Belucci makes a role that is written as a symbol into a full-blooded person.February 07, 2001
Despite Bellucci's strong presence in a role with little dialogue, the central character never really comes alive in any way interesting enough to give her ordeal much genuine pathos.February 02, 2001
Its heart is in the right place.February 07, 2001
Bereft of the more richly textured sentiments of Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso.February 02, 2001
Transparently misogynist at its core.May 26, 2006
A fully-fleshed out portrait, swirled in sweetness and nostalgia.July 25, 2004
La historia trata en realidad también de Italia y la pérdida de inocencia, de los costumbrismos y elementos regionales...December 25, 2006
Tornatore's Malena is to adolescence what his Cinema Paradiso was to childhood, a lyrical if sentimental fable about the perils of gowing up and the power of the imagination.February 02, 2009
For those of us who love Cinema Paradiso, the news that its Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and his musical soulmate Ennio Morricone were getting back together to do another coming-of-age film, Malena, gave us tantalizing hope. Malena faDecember 08, 2002
With Fellini and Leoni gone, who now stands as Italy's greatest living filmmaker? ... The correct answer has to be Giuseppe Tornatore.February 07, 2001
[Tornatore] eludes sentimentality with a romantic vision wide enough to embrace the range of human experience.February 02, 2001
An affecting coming-of-age story.