Renato follows this woman all over the town. Watching all this is Renato, a young man who has reached puberty and is completely taken by Malena's beauty. In order to make ends meet, all the men in town offer Malena anything so they can get favors from her in return. She is left to fend for herself under the most extreme circumstances. Malena's husband has gone to war, but he never returns. The film takes place during the last days of WWII. If you haven't seen the film, perhaps you would like to stop reading. Even the town's ladies have no qualms in shouting nasty things as Malena passes them by. It appears Italian men, then, as well as now, can express anything at all, especially for their big friends' benefit, their opinions of how they feel about a woman. In Giuseppe Tornatore's "Malena", the young woman at the center of the story, suffers that kind of sexual predatory practice from all the men in the little town in Sicily where she lives. In a way, "Malena" kept reminding us of a famous photograph by Ruth Orkin, in which a young American woman is seen walking alone in an Italian street where there must be at least twenty men ogling this beautiful beautiful creature in different degrees of desire, shouting things about what they would love to do with her. An Italian classic.Reviewed by jotix100 8 / 10 The girl in the villa Today “Malizia” is quite old, it is a typical Seventies movie -it was made after ’68, after the breakup of many sexual and morals frontiers, it is a provocative opus, very provocative. The film won several prices and critics praised the picture. Samperi and screenwriter Ottavio Jemma choose to adapt this “sexual” comedy in this context, in order to create a contrast. It takes place in Sicily, the family is very bourgeois and society very conservative. It is a very elegant picture, superbly photographed by Vittorio Storaro. One of them will conquer, a teenanger who’s discovering sexual instincts, will blackmail and conquer her… It tells the story of a young maid, Angela, who works in a house for a widow and his sons. “Malizia” was a big hit in 1973 -it launched Laura Antonelli’s career and established the reputation of director Salvatore Samperi, an “iconoclast” film-maker (he started “erotic” comedies, which teased Italian sexual taboos…!) But only one of them succeeds in dominating and conquering her. Each man uses his particular way to approach and capture the – apparently innocent and naive – young woman, and to see more of her sexy body. 1h 38min | Comedy, Fantasy | 29 March 1973 (Italy)Ī widower and his sons fall in love with Angela (Laura Antonelli), the beautiful housekeeper.
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