Malena is truly just an object of desire for us the audience, and we just watch Renato watching her. He presents us with a lush, beautiful-looking widescreen film shot by Lajos Koltai, fabulously designed, but with very little access to the characters in it.
Tornatore has a reputation for sentimentalising in his films and Malena is no different. Renato is the only one to have faith in her. She has no male protectors left, and no money. The lust in the air becomes palpable when her husband is reported missing. Malena`s husband is away fighting, but as she walks through the square of the seaside town in Sicily the men`s tongues dangle and the women`s sharpen.
The year is 1940 and the war is starting to gear up under Mussolini and his blackshirts. Malena, Monica Bellucci, is the object of desire for thirteen year old Renato, Guiseppe Suffaro.
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