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A two-time Oscar nominated romantic classic - starring Monica Bellucci in an utterly unforgettable story.
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Giuseppe Tornatore - director See profile
Supporting actors Matilde Piana Producers Carlo Bernasconi , Harvey Weinstein Studio Miramax Purchase rights Stream instantly Details Format Prime Video (streaming online video) Devices Available to watch on supported devices
W. Steinmetz Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2012
I first saw this film via Netflix streaming last year and loved it. I often suggest it to others, and came to the conclusion I should own it. After searching online, I discovered some issues. One being that there are two separate versions, cut (for American audiences) and uncut / special edition (apparently for the rest of the world...who have eyes and minds that can tolerate a visual portrayal of the nude human form). Of course I wanted the latter, not only because Monica Bellucci is easily one of the most beautiful women in the history of forever and ever...but also because I despise an artist's creation being hacked and slashed due to a vocal minority of insecure 'potential' viewers. Censorship of artistic expression is shameful, unless it breaks the law in some way. The second issue I found was that as an American the only Blu-ray option I had was the cut / censored version. Because of this I opted to search for the uncensored 2-Disc DVD set from Korea, which I'd found through research was supposedly Region zero and would play on Region 1 (United States, Canada, Bermuda, U.S. territories) players. I contacted the Amazon merchant "Import CD's" out of California concerning the region issue and they provided me with all they had, which was not much more than Amazon had. I went ahead with the order through Import CD's as I've dealt with them in the past. Shipping was very prompt and the merchandise was in fine quality when received. The back of the case stated region 3, so I used Wikipedia to find any more information and noticed that region 3 should NOT play in region 1 players. I took a chance anyway, noting both the information from Import CD's and Amazon's website, as well as user reviews acknowledging the Korean version as the one to buy. I was pleased to find that it indeed does work on a US Playstation 3, however the 2nd disc (special features) would not load. Just a continuous clicking as the system continued the attempt. I tried the disc in my PC. GOM Player would not load it, but VLC did load the menu and managed to play through roughly 5 minutes of the first "making of" before stalling and not allowing any more playback, even after multiple attempts at different menu selections. This is not a huge deal for me as I got the movie at a reasonable price and the actual movie was all I really wanted anyway. I'll check YouTube, etc. to see if I can find special feature items at some later time. Overall the movie quality is great (other than the first minute or two, in which video quality does suffer from lack of clarity a bit) for a DVD being up-converted on a PS3. The picture is 2.35:1 Anamorphic widescreen and the disc is single layer, NTSC. Audio was fine (the movie includes a great soundtrack!), with both Dolby Digital 2.0/DTS and Dolby 5.1 surround as options. If you're new to this movie, do understand that it is a foreign film (Italian) without English dialogue, so you'll have to opt for English or Korean subtitles with the Italian spoken dialogue. I found that the subtitles did not really detract from my enjoyment of the film at all...and once you've seen the film you'll be watching it again anyway, so you'll have plenty of time to see it all. The packaging reads mainly in English on the cover and binding, however the film description on the back is only Korean. In summary, if you love this film buy this Korean 2-Disc version (Barcode # 8 809154 130234)...unless a Blu-ray uncut special edition for your region is announced, in which case that is a must buy over this!. If you're on the fence and a Netflix subscriber, I suggest streaming it now, or rent it wherever you can find it...either version. You won't regret it. This is a fantastic coming of age film with wonderful acting and great atmosphere. Highly recommended!
John P. Jones III Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2021
No question, Monica Bellucci is some pleasant “eye candy.” Save for one rather dramatic scene though, that seems to be her primary, rather passive role. She plays the role of Malena Scordia, the sexy (and therefore despised, even hated, by the other village women) wife of Lieutenant Nino Scordia. Giuseppe Sulfaro does better in the acting department, playing the Renato Amoreso, a kid whose hormones have just started to rage, and has developed an obsession with the beautiful Malena, who, at 27, is more than twice his age. Giuseppe Tornatore directs this unrealistic fantasy, which was released in 2000. The movie commences in Sicily with Renato in the narrator role on the day in 1940 when Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, declared war on Britain and France. Renato got his first bike that day. He is 12 and a half years old. The hormones are stirring before they leap into overdrive. The bike helps get him accepted into the local group of teenager boys whose thoughts, well, are on that glorious piece of eye candy as she struts her stuff past them, nice heels and all, on just a routine walk through the village. I’ll admit to emitting my own “pant,” though I fell short of the drooling of those ever so youthful boys… Many a man has “been there” before they learned how to be a bit more circumspect in casting those admiring glances. Lieutenant Nino falls on a foreign field, in this case, North Africa, and Malena is left a widow, the subject of every village man’s desire and all the women’s hatred. Gossip abounds. Renato fantasizes about becoming her protector. Eventually Malena decides to make a living utilizing her assets. Regrettably, a trodden road. And wasn’t it a long way down? Dare I give too much away by suggesting Renato’s involvement. And guess who is coming? The British, Americans and Germans. Joy at being able to toss Il Duce into the dustbin of history. Renato, however, appears not to have aged a bit during those critical 3-4 years of one’s youth. Bingo. The next twist comes compliments of Honoré de Balzac’s novel, “Colonel Chabert.” What happens if Lieutenant Nino really did not die on that foreign field, as reported? At least in the movie, it is a vastly different scenario than in Balzac’s novel… as in, it really is sappy. The war is over (maybe… or at least in Sicily) and suddenly everyone is again very prosperous, with their fine clothes, good food, and village strolling. A far, far more realistic account of life in Italy during those critical few years has been provided by the British writer, Norman Lewis, who served in the Intelligence section of the British Army and wrote of his experience, published as “Naples ’44.” Much of the Italian civilian population scrounging for food, even desperately. Lewis estimated that 70% of the at-age female population resorted to selling those aforementioned assets to put some food into their, and their families' stomachs, often provided by those relatively affluent liberators. Thus, very few of the 70% were “throwing the first stone” at their “sisters,” as was done in the movie. For this bit of historical revisionism, 2-stars.
Bobby Underwood Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2005
This wonderful film from Italy by "Cinema Paradiso" writer and director Gieseppe Tornatore is both hilarious and heartbreaking. What starts out as a coming of age obsession turns into a meditation on human cruelty, and poses many questions: Is it what people expect of us that makes us what we are? And if we change to be this, where do we belong then, and can we be accepted again in the life we choose to live? Giueseppe Sulfaro is terrific as Renato, a young boy in an Italian town during WWII who has just gotten a new bicycle. His biggest goal in life is to get a pair of long pants so he can dress like a man. But once he sees the lovely Malena, his life changes forever. His adolescent fantasies about the most beautiful girl in the town are hysterical. He puts himself into the American films he has seen in these moments. We can't stop laughing at his John Wayne inspired "Stagecoach" western fantasy; "My, you have the biggest guns in the west, Renato!" His raging hormones are treated in a funny and yet tasteful manner. His adolescent longing for the town beauty turns to something more as this film slowly shows Renato how this small Italian town feels about the lovely Malena. Men gawk and want to have her for themselves and the women hate her because of her dark beauty. They gossip to cheapen her. But Renato has been spying on her through a peephole and knows the truth. She is pure. She dances alone in her house with her husband's picture, faithful and waiting for his return from war. Renato loves the beautiful Malena and defends her virtue by playing nasty tricks on the ones who talk about her. When she apparently becomes a widow her life becomes much harder and the gossip turns more vicious as the entire town pushes her towards the loose woman they want her to be; the men so they can sleep with her, and the women so they can feel superior. Once a "payment" is forced upon her by the town attorney her path is sealed and the young Renato watches the girl he worships from afar become a prostitute, knowing she is still pure, and has no choices. Monica Bellucci is magnificent as Malena. She is ravishingly beautiful and quietly displays emotions underneath we can not see, an elegant dignity carried all through the film. Even as she is dragged into the streets and beaten by the women after American liberation from the Germans Bellucci's Malena maintains a rare dignity which separates her from the other women in the town. It is a raw emotional scene of a kind rarely if ever seen in American cinema. Don't let this truly wonderful film pass by just because you don't like subtitles. Monica Bellucci is very memorable as the breathtakingly beautiful Malena. Renato knows he will never forget Malena. Neither will you.
kaream Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2010
If you've made your way to this rather obscure listing, there are several things you need to be aware of: 1) This review pertains *ONLY* to the "medusavideo" [[ASIN:B000YEDM98 malena (Dvd) Italian Import]] (ASIN:B000YEDM98) version of Malena. Amazon has an unfortunate policy of transferring reviews from one edition to another, even when they are not at all relevant. 2) This MedusaVideo release is the real thing, with no cuts at all. Medusa was the film's original production company, and its original distributor. This is not an Asian knock-off, and it is not the hatchet job put out by Miramax/Disney which chopped out roughly 17 minutes from the film. Apparently most Asian versions claiming to be "uncut" in fact have brief shots omitted, due to local laws and taboos. 3) This DVD is a PAL Region 2. Some US players will play PAL encoding just as easily as the US standard NTSC encoding, but not all will. However, you will definitely need an all-region player to accept a Region 2 disc; otherwise your player will simply give you an error message, and won't even attempt to play the movie. The US standard is Region 1. 4) The soundtrack on this edition is in Italian only, with NO option for English. The movie does have subtitles, but again the subtitles are in Italian only, with NO option for English or any other language. So you will need to be able to make out either spoken or written Italian in order to follow the movie. 5) Medusa has released three different editions of Malena: --a single disc of the movie alone; --a two-disc package including the movie by itself, and a second disc filled with interesting extras or supplements, again in Italian only; and --a three-disc package of these same two DVDs, plus an audio CD of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack, which is also available separately as [[ASIN:B00005AV1Z Malena]] (ASIN:B00005AV1Z). All three of these releases are priced differently, whether or not they are shown as such in this listing. If you order this original uncut MedusaVideo version from an Amazon Marketplace seller, be certain you understand which of these three editions is being offered, and at what price. You will need to contact the seller to verify this information before ordering. 6) You may notice an apparent discrepancy in the movie's runtime - IMDb gives the NTSC runtime as 109 minutes, whereas the PAL runtime on this disc is 105 minutes. Be assured that nothing has been cut; PAL simply runs imperceptibly faster than NTSC. 7) At the time of this writing, Amazon's listing contains a couple of confusing errors which may have been corrected by the time you see this review. The movie is actually Unrated (UR), for mature audiences only; and the director is, of course, Giuseppe Tornatore. 8) And Monica Bellucci has *never* been lovelier than here, as Malena.
Purchaser Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2017
This is one of the best movies I ever watched. This movie explores the theme of love, beauty, and sexuality. The whole life of Malena is presented through the eyes of the young boy. Every time I watch this movie I cry because I understand what this boy feels. I think that this was his only love that he will never forget. Malena's beauty is her punishment. Our society is such that people like to create stereotypes. Malena was forced to become a prostitute; she had no choice. This is definitely a philosophical movie that reminds me of works of Fedor Dostoevsky . In one of his books Dostoevsky also described girls who had to work as prostitutes. Dostoevsky describes these girls as angels with bright feathers. Malena's fate is to suffer. The crowd in the city where Malena grew up could not swallow the fact that Malena is a gorgeous woman. Both men and women are mesmerized by her beauty. Women and men jealous and gossip, and as a result, Malena's reputation is damaged and she could not find a job to survive. The community is heartless. The boy is the only one who seems to understand Malena's situation and bravely helps Malena. This movie is about the true love.
Charles Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2021
Sorrow...timing...forgiveness...love...
Oakbug Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2009
I enjoyed this movie, but it is distressing because it happened too many times at the end of WW2. It shows both the strengths and weaknesses of human character. It also shows how easy it is for a society to ravage and ruin someone's life, especially a woman or stranger. Monica does a good and perhaps great job playing her character, and if you like the "grown up" narration of the narrator's past, i.e. The Wonder Years or Sandlot, then you should like this movie as well. The only aspect that I did not find totally credible, is when Monica surrenders to the town's expectations of her in order to get food, she seemingly disliked sleeping with an Italian leader but later in the movie, seemingly enjoys sleeping with multiple Germans. Given that she continues to love her husband throughout the movie, I find it hard to believe that she would give herself totally over to the Germans even when it was the only choice to get food. I am not saying that she may not have had a good time, but given the theme of the movie being the tragedy of what happens to her and her love for her husband, it would seem contradictary to then have her enjoy being a prostitute given that the town forced her into it. Overall it tells the very real story of many women and other strangers in a setting that happened in many towns in Europe during and after WW2, and in other places during other major wars.
nedhere Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2021
Well done with an accompl-ished actress and supporting cast.

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