In slow motion he again sees fragments of the first time he met her. Renato is in his room and dreams of Malena. Thanks Miramax.ĭifference in running-time: 1.065 seconds = 17:45 minutes in 48 scenesĪgain the boys stop their bicycles to marvel at Malena. And how about Lajos Koltai, who might have won the Oscor if not 17 minutes of brilliant shots had been erased? We will never know. Could Ennio Morricone have taken home the Oscar home after his fifth nomination? After all, two how his best compositions were lost in the cutting-room.
Did the Oscar-jury watch the uncensored version? Definitely not. Only in Italy, its country of origin, it was possible to release the movie uncensored.Īnd again Hollywood-haters are proved right. In part because they did not want brilliant shots and ingenious music to dominate whole sequences of the movie and in part because they are from a country where prudery is the highest of all moral virtues coupled with an inclination to spread this virtue around the globe. Despite all of that, the Oscar-decorated producers from Miramax could resist to remove 15 minutes of what makes the movie a masterpiece. Due to scenes of gross sexual immorality, cruelty and religiously-motivated violence, MALENA is strongly not recommended.The movie Malèna offers unbelievably beautiful cinematography, Ennio Morricone's best score in years and a phenomenal lead actress. The church, too, is mocked in MALENA, and there is little redeeming content amid this story of excessive sin and depravity. Even more disturbing, much of the violence is committed under the guise of righteousness and piety. Some of the vile content includes: a boy spits in man’s drink and urinates in woman’s purse children struck repeatedly by father crowd viciously attacks woman in street, ripping clothes from her and kicking her face violent date rape teenager loses virginity at bordello at father’s urging boys compare private parts and, voyeurism. MALENA contains beautiful scenery and clever fantasy scenes of early Hollywood-type classics, but it is a darkly disturbing, violent, anti-Christian story of gossip, false accusations, sexuality, voyeuristic adolescents, revenge, and tragedy. (ABABAB, HHH, LLL, VVV, SSS, NNN, A, D, MM) Anti-biblical, humanist coming-of-age story of an adolescent boy obsessed with a beautiful widow in 1940s Sicily, including prayer, clergy & exorcism mocked 1 blasphemy, 35 obscenities, 6 strong profanities, sexual talk, numerous obscene gestures, vulgar humor in classroom, flatulence humor, & boy spits in man’s drink & urinates in woman’s purse strong violence including children struck repeatedly by father, crowd viciously attacks woman in street, ripping clothes from her & kicking her face, violent date rape, bombing victim dragged from rubble, fantasy scene of young gladiator stabbing another boy with pitchfork, men fight, & rock thrown into shop window extreme sexuality including men leer (including priests) & women are jealous, prostitution, miscellaneous sexual fantasies & situations, numerous scenes of implied masturbation, teenager loses virginity at bordello at father’s urging, boys compare private parts, voyeurism, boy views 1940s pornography, boy steals woman’s underwear, & violent date rape female & male nudity teenagers smoke teenagers drink and, gossip, lying, false accusations, & themes of revenge. Due to scenes of gross sexual immorality, cruelty and religiously-motivated violence, MALENA is strongly not recommended Content: The church, too, is mocked in MALENA and there is little redeeming content amid this story of excessive sin and depravity. Ever-watchful Renato does not come to her aid but, nevertheless, learns a valuable lesson about courage. Malena is leered at by men, reviled by women and eventually suffers greatly for her beauty. MALENA is the story of Renato, a young boy coming of age in 1940s Sicily, and his fixation on the beautiful war widow Malena.