Review of Malena (2000) by Caleb C — 23 Aug 2008

A wonderful and beautiful but tradgic film about beauty.

This review of Malena (2000) was written by Caleb C on 23 Aug 2008.

Malena has generally received positive reviews.

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By Matt M (2,511) on 07 Jun 2013

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 09 Dec 2017

You wish that Malena's inner life had been given as much accent as her outer charms…

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By Mark Steyn (90) for The Spectator (1,162) on 24 Jan 2018

Malena poses as a bounteously endowed, ripe, curvy Italian mamma, but metaphorically it's an undernourished cadaverous Kate Moss of a movie…

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By Peter W (1,106) on 04 Mar 2015

Ravishing photography featuring Monica Bellucci, but for 2/3 the story is Ruth Orkin, American Girl in Italy and nothing else…

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By Dustin D (712) on 04 Aug 2017

I didn't think I was going to like this movie but it turned out to be surprisingly good…

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By Pavan R (814) on 30 Sep 2016

Lots of men, and boys, objectifying a woman, who remains unknowable. It's all rather depressing…

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By Mike N (816) on 04 Mar 2014

Monica bellucci shows more than just her beauty in this sexist plot, where the woman is guilty for being beautiful, but the man is not wrong…

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