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. Reviewed by jotix100 8 / 10 The girl in the villa
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