Malena

Giuseppe Tornatore is back

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Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana, Pietro Notarianni
Italy, 2000. 94 min.

If you have any heart at all and love movies, chances are you love Cinema Paradiso, or at least once loved Cinema Paradiso (I am in the second category.) Director Guiseppe Tornatore, who brought us the classic ode to movies and small-town life is now back with Malena, a coming-of-age story about young Renato (Guiseppe Sulfaro) and his lust for Malena, played by Monica Bellucci. The soundtrack is once more by Ennio Morricone.

Rogert Ebert
"The film torturously tries to transform this theme in scenes of comedy, nostalgia and bittersweet regret, but somehow we doubt its sincerity, maybe because the camera lingers so lovingly on the callipygian charms of the actress Monica Bellucci. There is noting quite so awkward as a film that is one thing while it pretends to be another."

Hollywood Reporter
What begins as a nostalgic sex comedy inevitably falls prey to those darker fascist elements, but the resulting tonal shifts never completely blend into a satisfying whole.

Malena at Rotten Tomatoes

 

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