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Title: Malèna (2000)
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Luciano Federico | ... |
Renato's Father
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Matilde Piana | ... |
Renato's Mother
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Pietro Notarianni | ... |
Professor Bonsignore
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Gaetano Aronica | ... |
Nino Scordia
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Gilberto Idonea | ... |
Avvocato Centorbi
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Angelo Pellegrino | ... |
Segretario politico
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Pippo Provvidenti | ... |
Dott. Cusimano
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Maria Terranova | ... |
Moglie Dott. Cusimano
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Marcello Catalano | ... |
Lieutenant Cadei
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Elisa Morucci | ... |
Lupetta
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Domenico Gennaro | ... |
Farmacista
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Moglie farmacista
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Malèna is about the peril of a beauty through the eyes of a 12 year old kid named Renato. He experiences three things on the same day, beginning of war, getting a bike and sees the arrival of Malèna in town. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed to be dead, and through his soul we see his undying love for her. Written by Paul
Malena is a beautiful and deeply touching film. It is a masterful combination of sites, sounds and colors. The two leading actors (Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro) are simply excellent at what they are supposed to convey in this movie. Apart from her truly majestic elegance, Monica Bellucci invests her character (Malena) with an aura of tragedy, of some profound and unrelenting emotional trauma and pain which remains unspoken throughout the film and reaches its climax at the very end. Malena's stunningly beautiful eyes remain constantly downcast, and her face -- tense and pierced through by psychic pain (she rarely raises her face, let alone speaks words). Renato (the teenage boy) wins his audience by his incredibly pure and valiant love for Malena (this affection he carries in his heart for several years). She becomes his muse, his courage, his sense of honor, his whole rationale for confronting difficult and disruptive life of the war-torn Italy. I agree completely with another commentator who said that the ending of the movie is perhaps one of the most genuinely melancholic moments in modern cinematography. Simply brilliant. Superb music! This movie should be watched several times to be fully appreciated.