
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 love for her.... (Full plot summary below)
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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 love for her.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleQualifies as director Giuseppe Tornatore's second full-fledged masterpiece. His first: "Cinema Paradiso." |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonIt renders the story in such grandiose visual terms that style often seems to overpower the tale. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasMalena the film is as beautiful and seductive as its heroine, with its ravishing Lajos Koltai cinematography and sweepingly romantic Ennio Morricone score. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyTornatore'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. |
| SPLICEDWireRob BlackwelderAt once a charming and tragic tale, Malena is warm, poignant and beautifully crafted. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesThe movie is filmed with an honest sensuality, and it never overplays its hand when it comes to the erotic parts. |
| Film ThreatRon WellsWith Fellini and Leoni gone, who now stands as Italy's greatest living filmmaker? ... The correct answer has to be Giuseppe Tornatore. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyGives audiences something more than just a heart-stopping beauty to contemplate. |
| The SpectatorMark SteynMalena poses as a bounteously endowed, ripe, curvy Italian mamma, but metaphorically it's an undernourished cadaverous Kate Moss of a movie. |
| Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenFeels like a compendium of any number of similarly themed coming-of-age films without the ability to mine any fresh, satisfying resonance in the assembly. |