Monica Bellucci The face of an angel, the figure of a devil is worthy of being the Earth Ball Flower
CLIP DESCRIPTION: Malena (Monica Bellucci) causes a stir amongst the townspeople as she walks through the plaza after looking for a job. FILM DESCRIPTION: A young man s infatuation for a beautiful older woman blooms amidst the outbreak of World War II in this bittersweet comedydrama from Italy. Renato (Giuseppe Sulfaro) is a 13yearold boy growing up in a small Sicilian community. Mussolini has risen to power and has declared war upon England and France, but Renato has other things on his mind mostly girls. While hanging out with his friends by the seashore, Renato spies Malèna (Monica Bellucci), the daughter of one of his schoolteachers, whose husband Nino (Gaetano Aronica) is fighting with Mussolini s army. Renato is immediately obsessed with Malèna and follows her like a lost puppy, spying on her whenever circumstances permit and imagining her as his costar in elaborate erotic fantasies inspired by his favorite movies. Renato, however, is hardly the only man in town to
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