Malèna (2000)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Giuseppe Tornatore

Escritores:

Giuseppe Tornatore (writer)
Luciano Vincenzoni (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

27 octubre 2000 (Italy)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Romance | Guerra

Frase comercial:

An intimate portrait and an epic story of the courage we discover, the innocence we surrender, and the memories we cherish.....forever.

Plot:

A woman provokes sensual awakenings in a group of adolescent boys.

Plot Keywords:

1940s | Boy | Italy | Grief | Topless

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 16 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Cinematographic Symphony

Reparto

Monica Bellucci	...	Malèna Scordia
Giuseppe Sulfaro	...	Renato Amoroso
Luciano Federico	...	Renato's Father
Matilde Piana	...	Renato's Mother
Pietro Notarianni	...	Professor Bonsignore
Gaetano Aronica	...	Nino Scordia
Gilberto Idonea	...	Avvocato Centorbi (as Gilberto Idone)
Angelo Pellegrino	...	Segretario politico
Gabriella Di Luzio	...	Mantenuta del Barone
Pippo Provvidenti	...	Dott. Cusimano
Maria Terranova	...	Moglie Dott. Cusimano
Marcello Catalano	...	Lieutenant Cadel
Elisa Morucci	...	Lupetta
Domenico Gennaro	...	Farmacista
Vitalba Andrea	...	Moglie farmacista

También conocida como:

Malena (Argentina) (Peru) (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality/nudity, language and some violence.

Duración:

Italy:109 min | USA:92 min | Turkey:84 min (TV version)

País:

Italy | USA

Idioma:

Italiano | Sicilian | Inglés | Latin

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | Iceland:12 | Malaysia:18SX | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Chile:14 | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Italy:T | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 (re-rating) | Portugal:M/16 (original rating) | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Messina, Sicily, Italy

Compañía:

Medusa Produzione

Errores:

Continuidad: The bike that Renato rides, suddenly has a modern derailleur-type chain tensioner at the rear at about 20-21 minutes into the film. At all other times, his bike has a fixed rear gear without the chain tensioner.

Citas:

Renato's Father: [regarding Renato's incessant and loud masturbation sessions at night] You are going to go blind!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in One Minutes (2009)

Banda de Sonido:

Ma l'amore no

Cinematographic Symphony

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.