MALENA
Discovered via Dennis. The movie is beautiful. Set during WWII in a small seaside Sicilian town struggling to survive the horrors of war. It's about the coming of age of a boy named Renato. It's about a small town's penchant for gossip. It's about envy and lust and how it destroys the life of an otherwise innocent victim. It's about survival amidst all the chaos. It's about Malena, the unsuspecting victim of a town's wrath and yet her only crime was that she was born beautiful. It's about unrequited love.
"Faithful Renato seems to be the only one able to see the personality hidden from everyone else, and his pure romanticism renders him vulnerable to the first painful lesson in becoming a man: Unrequited love is emotion in its purest form but no less bittersweet for its tenderness and purity. " - movie review @ criticsnest.com
What I most liked about the film aside from its cinematography and story are its actors. Monica Belluci isn't just a thing of beauty but a brilliant actress. She hardly had any lines in the movie but her eyes expressed more than words could ever do. One of my favorite scenes in the movie is in the last part of the movie when she went back to the town that ostracized her. She went to the market that previously wouldn't sell her food on the mere basis of the gossip that she was sleeping with the whole town. She seemed hesistant and shy as she walked in, yet she did so with the grace and dignity of a woman who knew that she had not done the town wrong. One woman called out to greet her. Her expression almost seemed distrustful, her eyes still sad and melancholic. But in the end, consistent to her good character, she slowly gave back a smile. Which I think was the beginning of her journey towards healing.
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