She falls on hard times and eventually has no money. The village is bombed and Malena's father is killed. When a slanderous letter about her sexual morals reaches his hands, their relationship suffers a catastrophic blow. She visits her father, an almost deaf professor of Latin, regularly and helps him with his household chores.
Malena is shunned by the townspeople and the unattractive, jealous women of the Italian village, who begin to believe the worst about her, simply because of her beauty. Renato continues to watch as she suffers from loneliness and grief. The silent, distractingly beautiful outsider learns one day that her husband has been killed. Renato becomes obsessed with Malena and starts fantasizing about her while masturbating. However, in spite of the villagers' gossip, she continues to be faithful to her husband. Malena feels sad and tries to cope with her loss, as the town she has just moved to tries to deal with this beautiful woman who gets the attention and lustful stares of all the local men, including the 12-year-old Renato. Malena's husband, Nino Scordia, leaves to serve in the military.
It doesn't help that the movie's action grows steadily gloomier, leading to a public humiliation that seems wildly out of scale with what has gone before and to an ending that is intended to move us much more deeply, alas, than it can.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. "Malena" is a simpler story, in which a young man grows up transfixed by a woman and essentially marries himself to the idea of her. Please.) But Fellini sees the humor that underlies sexual obsession, except (usually but not always) in the eyes of the participants. She continues to shine brightly in Renato's eyes, however, even after his field of knowledge is broadened when his father takes him to a bordello for the old "I give you the boy-give me back the man" routine.įellini's films often involve adolescents inflamed by women who embody their carnal desires. This descent in the world requires her to spend a great deal of time half-dressed before Tornatore's appreciative camera. She must abandon her teaching job because of the unjustified scandal and eventually is reduced by wartime poverty to dating German soldiers.
The story involves Malena's bad luck after her husband is called up by the army and her good name is sullied by local gossip. They use Malena as subject matter for their autoerotic pastimes, but for Renato, she is more like a dream, like a heroine, like a woman he wants to protect from herself-with his bare hands, hopefully.
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The story is told by Renato ( Giuseppe Sulfaro), who as the movie opens is admitted to the local fraternity of girl-watchers. Malena, who is a schoolteacher and of at least average intelligence, must be aware of her effect on the collective local male libido, but seems blissfully oblivious her role is not so much dramatic as pictorial (a word I am using in the Playboy sense). She is all they can imagine a woman could be, arousing their imaginations, and more, with her languorous swaying passage. In a Italian town in 1940, a group of adolescent boys waits for the beautiful Malena to pass by. The setup scenes are like low-rent Fellini. There is noting quite so awkward as a film that is one thing while it pretends to be another.
The film torturously tries to transform this theme in scenes of comedy, nostalgia and bittersweet regret, but somehow we doubt its sincerity, maybe because the camera lingers so lovingly on the callipygian charms of the actress Monica Bellucci. Giuseppe Tornatore's "Malena" tells the story of a woman whose life is destroyed because she has the misfortune to be beautiful and have a great butt.
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