ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

lunablacklight First of all, if there is any mistakes in my grammar I apologize. English is not my first language. The film is a piece of art in many topics. Bellucci's character was perfect for her. Most of all because her character winks her real life career and stereotypes. It would be perfect if at the end, Malena will return as she has always been. Not as a prudent married woman. The film is great but after all the exaggeration with her sex appeal and the city people obsession that was most at all misogynist. The least that the plot should did was to make a strong statement about women reality and oppression conditions. And for more reasons because of the historic and political moment where the story takes place. This diminish the film significance for me.

zetes Sicily, 1940. A teenage boy (Giuseppe Sulfaro) is initiated into manhood when his friends introduce him to the glories of Malena (Monica Belluci), the most beautiful woman in town. Sulfaro becomes obsessed, following her wherever she goes on his bike, and he even spies on her in her home. His obsession is not the only one, as much as he wishes and wants to believe it were - the whole town worships her. Every man wants to have her, and every woman is deeply jealous of that fact. And, man, does that make life hard for Malena - her husband is fighting the war in Africa, and the rumors are flying, making life nearly impossible. Sulfaro might see her as a sex object initially, but the more he observes the more he sympathizes. This film begins as an enjoyable comedy, but it grows deeply serious. The climax is one of the harshest, most potent sequences I've seen in a long while. One will recognize the nostalgic tone of the movie if you're familiar with Cinema Paradiso, but I think this is actually a stronger film. Excellent.

mingmingbaibaigepi Just watched Malèna again, last time maybe 10 years ago, at that time, I was just addicted to beauty of Monica Bellucci. In Chinese, it is translated to " the beautiful legend of Sicilia ", at last, it is not beautiful but fierce humanities. Beauty is doomed to loneliness and indescribable, the root of evil, sin, lust and purity paradoxically? That is destroyed by the violence and silence from the masses. Gossip and jealousy drive people to be mad. Women self-suggest a beautiful woman must have defect on moral as a silly compensation because they envy the beauty from Malèna they could not possess, but the men, their possessiveness and the repression of reality also drive them to self-suggest , they thought Malèna a lust whore to relief or release their greedy because they could not touch her actually. Boy's sexual fantasy seems quite authentic as we are always doing, we are imagining we did everything with powerful heroism at all times, the sad reality is that we are dispassionate onlookers for the tragedy. Who can tell me why the young boys love maturing woman but they would love Lolita when they get old?

iqelectronicsgr What a joy to live at this epoch ... To had a chance to see this masterpiece !!! This movie is like a documentary of human emotion .. It has good and evil , sorrow and joy , True feelings false feelings ... i could go on for ever .. To truly understand this movie we have to be able to distinct the feelings.. In English there is only one word LOVE ... In Greek there are 2 words EROTAS and AGAPI both mean love yet there are completely different .. Erotas is like a gentle flower of Love and if the soil of emotion will be fitted it will gradually grow to a beautiful and strong Tree which will be called Love .. Erotas is gentle and breathtaking emotion yet it is fragile to various climate of emotions .. and soil of emotions... SO it is not strong enough to bring the total joy to our heart .. we have to watch over it until it becomes LOVE a powerful and Almighty tree ... This movie will show you what is Erotas .. when you will see all this primal emotions that overcome our sense .. yet it is not enough to go through the end ... And watching this you can only imagine what True love is ..