It is impossible to talk about Malèna without mentioning Monica Bellucci. She plays Malèna Scordia, a stunning war-widow in a small Italian town during World War II. Bellucci is magnetic, but her performance is a masterclass in silence.
Now, twenty years later, Mr. Raval was gone. His house was a fresh stucco box with a Ring doorbell. And Elisa was a film professor who had never quite finished her dissertation on the cinema of longing. malena movie netflix
The climax of the film—a shocking, violent public shaming—is difficult to watch, but it serves as a powerful indictment of mob mentality and the cruelty of war. It is impossible to talk about Malèna without