What an absolute delight to the senses. The melancholy music by Ennio Morricone, the 1940s scenery of a small Sicilian town, the amazing beauty and dignified demeanor of Monica Bellucci, the unflinching portrait of small-town gossip and jealousy - all combine to make a magnificent story with moments of incredible humor, sadness, passion and redemption. I drank in every minute of it. Highly recommended

First time i saw Malena on TV with a lot of censorship indeed. The second time i watch in a movie club in Jakarta. This time i saw without any cuts of it. Monica Bellucci is the center of this movie. Her body was potentially mark up the values of the whole story. The boy is a symbolic of a man's world. War makes all of cast, exclude Malena, becoming insane. Malena is a victim of man's desire. Every man from all race who fights each other just to be a war champion. And the trophy was Malena. Everything's recorded on Renato's mind, Malena's stalker.But war is over and she finally find her husband and leave the town to build a new family's life. Tornatore is a great director, Monica Bellucci makes him.

The movie focused on a worthless boy who fell in so called «Love» with a worthless woman (((whose husband left her alone to go fight the meaningless war. Her husband cared for other people more than his own wife. He knew that his wife would become a whore someday if he leave her alone with those meaningless people without a non-deaf person and enough money.))) but it seems that Malena doesn't even know that that boy exists; The boy doesn't have the courage to tell her how bad he loves to f**k her soft white ass up, so the boy starts masturbating. Masturbating, masturbating and masturbating. «He» masturbated and «They» masturbated. Everyone masturbated!The boy's father finds his son having Malena's panties in his mouth, so he gets beaten up by his father!The boy's father finds out that his son's penis has grown longer and thicker, so he take him to a place full of bi**hes, where he can choose who to f**k!They tell Malena's father that your daughter is a whore; Her father says OK!Malena has no more money now. So she become a Whore! -As for the boy, still masturbating!Malena gets beaten up by those meaningless people in the public, so she leaves the town! Her father? Doesn't hear her! The boy? Watching his «LOVE!» gets beaten up. His reaction? Still watching... . Is he a true Lover? Of course!Malena is leaving the town - the boy? Watching...Her husband comes back to the town with only one hand (left one), looking for his wife, but his wife is gone now, so he go to find her and take a her back to where she was.The next film: Malena comes back to the town with his husband arm to arm, and starts a new life with him and with the best people she has ever faced!Result: Sucked.

At last I have been able to watch the complete version of "Malena". It is a simple story, but one which speaks volumes about people, about love, while telling the story of a Sicilian town caught up in Mussolini's war, of a boy who becomes a young man, of a city ravaged not only by war but also by jealousy, greed and hatred; but above all it is the story of a woman who, at least in our eyes, stays courageous and never loses her dignity. The story unfolds through the eyes of the boy, in his words and through his eyes. Monica Bellucci, who portrays the woman, is not afraid to stop looking drop-dead gorgeous and to look ugly when the story requires it. She plays the part using not only her body (which for many actresses would be enough) but above all her dark eyes, speaking very little. All in all a picture of humanity, at its worst and at its best, told through the story of a city, of Sicilians, of Italians, indeed of all people, and a film which should be watched more than once, if possible in the original language.