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Limited Release: Nov 22, 2000; Rateds: R, Unrated; Length: 106 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Erotic, Foreign Language, Romance; With: Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
The Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) taps the aging art-house audience's nostalgia for nostalgia. In his latest, Malena (Monica Bellucci), a voluptuous beauty, takes hip-swishing strolls through her Sicily village, ogled by the local men and by Tornatore's camera. Only Renato (Giuseppe Sulfaro), a wolf-eyed adolescent, learns her tragic secret: that she's as virtuous as she is gorgeous. B-
Posted Jan 19, 2001
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