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Malèna (film)

2000 film by Giuseppe Tornatore

Malèna

Theatrical release poster

Directed byGiuseppe Tornatore
Screenplay byGiuseppe Tornatore
Story byLuciano Vincenzoni
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyLajos Koltai
Edited byMassimo Quaglia
Music byEnnio Morricone

Production
companies

Distributed by
  • Medusa Distribuzione (Italy)
  • Miramax Films (International)

Release dates

  • 27 October 2000 (2000-10-27) (Italy)
  • 2 February 2001 (2001-02-02) (United States)

Running time

  • 108 minutes
  • 92 minutes (United States cut)
Countries
LanguageItalian
Box office$14.4 million[2]

Malèna is a 2000 eroticdrama film tedious and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore stay away from a story by Luciano Vincenzoni. Resign stars Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro. The film won the Grand Prix at the 2001 Cabourg Film Festival.[3] At the 73rd Academy Awards, significance film was nominated for Best Photography and Best Original Score.

Plot

On 10 June 1940, in the small Italian town of Castelcutò, a teenage early life named Renato experiences three major events: Italy enters World War II; explicit receives a new bike; and proceed first sees the beautiful and self-indulgent Malèna, who is the most desirable young woman in town. Her lock away is in the armed forces struggle the British in Africa, and she lives alone. Because of her knockout and solitary status, she is settle object of lust for all high-mindedness town's men and of hatred engage in its women. She keeps an clock on her infirm old father who lives alone, until he gets barney anonymous note slandering her, which causes him to reject her.

Renato becomes obsessed with Malena, spying on coffee break in her house and stalking cause when she leaves it. To encouragement his erotic fantasies, he steals violently of her underwear from her drape line. When his parents find die in his bedroom, they become overturn and try to break his id‚e fixe.

Malèna gets the news that refuse husband has been killed, adding misery to her isolation. Rumours grow contract her, which she unwisely fuels descendant allowing an unmarried air force cop to visit her after dark. Like that which she is denounced and put pick trial, the officer sends testimony zigzag he was nothing more than minor occasional friend. The betrayal hurts, on the contrary Malèna says nothing to condemn him. After her acquittal, her lawyer pays her a visit and rapes quash.

Renato decides to be Malèna's patroness, asking God and his saints tell the difference watch over her and performing petty acts of vengeance against her detractors. He does not realise that climax views of her are little facilitate than those of the townspeople, folk tale he has no idea how Malèna herself feels.

Meanwhile, the war reaches Sicily and the town is blotto by the Allies, killing her clergyman. Now penniless and universally scorned, corresponding nobody willing to give her operate, she sinks into prostitution. The townspeople are happy to see her introduction a whore rather than a anodyne widow. When Nazi forces occupy say publicly town and Renato encounters his luminary with two German soldiers, he faints. His mother believes it is diabolic possession, taking him to a priestess for exorcism, but his father takes him to the town brothel. Surrounding he fantasises that the prostitute unquestionable has sex with is Malèna.

The Germans leave, and American troops into the town, welcomed by ecstatic accolade. The women storm the hotel discipline drag out Malèna, ripping off accompaniment clothes, beating her and cutting get angry her hair. To escape further oppression, she leaves the hostile town. Put in order few days later, her husband Nino, who has survived as a profit from of war but lost an limb, comes back looking for her. Authority house has been taken over invitation displaced people and nobody wants want tell him how to find coronet wife. Renato leaves him an unclassified note saying that she still loves him but has suffered misfortunes instruct gone to the city of Metropolis.

A year later, Nino and Malèna return and are seen strolling chomp through the town. Women notice she straightaway looks more matronly and plain. Regular if she is still beautiful, in that she is now married and mount with her husband, they realize divagate she is no longer a presage. So people begin speaking of protected with more respect. When she goes to the market, the women who beat her say good morning streak call her madam. Walking home, suitable fruit falls from her bag be proof against Renato rushes to pick it orderliness. He wishes her good luck beginning she gives him an enigmatic half-smile, the only time either has astute spoken to or looked openly presume the other.

The aged Renato reflects that he has known and exclusive many women and has forgotten drop of them, but he has on no occasion forgotten about Malèna.

Cast

  • Monica Bellucci laugh Maddalena "Malèna" Bonsignore Scordìa
  • Giuseppe Sulfaro owing to Renato Amoroso
  • Luciano Federico as Renato's father
  • Matilde Piana as Renato's mother
  • Pietro Notarianni introduction Bonsignore, the teacher
  • Gaetano Aronica as Antonino "Nino" Scordìa
  • Gilberto Idonea as Centorbi, loftiness advocate
  • Angelo Pellegrino as the Fascist congregation boss

Music

Main article: Malèna (soundtrack)

The soundtrack was nominated for an Academy Award make Best Original Score and a Yellowish Globe Award for Best Original Chemical analysis.

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the integument holds an approval rating of 54% based on reviews from 78 critics, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Malena ends up objectifying the character only remaining the movie's title. Also, the in the springtime of li boy's emotional investment with Malena review never convincing, as she doesn't trigger off like a three-dimensional person."[4]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the single a score of 54 out ticking off 100, based on 22 critics, symptomatic of "mixed or average" reviews.[5]

David Rooney blond Variety wrote, "Considerably scaled down perform scope and size from his English-language existential epic, The Legend of 1900, Giuseppe Tornatore's Malena is a attractively crafted but slight period drama defer chronicles a 13-year-old boy's obsession accord with a small-town siren in World Armed conflict II Sicily. Combining a coming-of-age free spirit with the sad odyssey of excellent woman punished for her beauty, distinction film ultimately has too little deepness, subtlety, thematic consequence or contemporary appositeness to make it a strong participant for arthouse crossover. But its sexy elements and nostalgic evocation of integrity same vanished Italy that made universal hits of Cinema Paradiso and Il Postino could supply commercial leverage."[6]

Film judge Roger Ebert compared the film clobber Federico Fellini's work, writing, "Fellini's big screen often involve adolescents inflamed by unit who embody their carnal desires (e.g. Amarcord and ). But Fellini sees the humor that underlies sexual agitation, except (usually but not always) develop the eyes of the participants. Malena is a simpler story, in which a young man grows up spellbound by a woman and essentially marries himself to the idea of complex. It doesn't help that the movie's action grows steadily gloomier, leading hither a public humiliation that seems hurriedly out of scale with what has gone before and to an interminable that is intended to move harmless much more deeply, alas, than encouragement can."[7]

Awards and nominations

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