Malena is a creature created by God. The most beautiful woman in Sicily. Is every man's dream lover. She doesn't need to speak, she doesn't need to have expressions, as long as she walks past you with graceful and charming steps, your eyes will surely follow her shadow from now on.
This is Giuseppe Tornatore, the beautiful myth of Sicily created for us by the director from Italy.
"The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" made me meet Monica Bellucci. And "The Pianist at Sea" made me really pay attention to Gise Bertonadore, this beautiful Italian director.
I don't know if everyone will have more or less nostalgia, and this homeland plot will be expressed in various forms in his life. For Tonadore, the film became the best means of expression. In many of his films, he used his own lens to show the world the fascinating customs and customs of Sicily, a beautiful island located in western Italy and on the Mediterranean Sea. So another film worth mentioning is "Paradise Cinema" in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which is also set in Sicily. Beautiful Sicily, became Tonadore's inexplicable complex.
Some unforgettable scenes in the film, the seaside town under the bright sunshine, the noisy market square, and the bustling crowd. Whether it is the figure of Malena Pingting passing through the crowd in the streets and alleys, or the huge movie projection that Evert casts on the white building in the center of the square; all the images are so full of life, but everywhere It exudes an aesthetic temperament like a classical oil painting. If it weren't for the director's own love of life, all of this must be nowhere to be found.
Not all films, however, reflect the sunny side of life. Just as "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" is actually not beautiful, it is even a bit poignant. We wonder if really good things in this reality always have to suffer more or less. From The Beautiful Sicily to The Irrevocable, our Miss Monica is always playing a victim. The latter is a direct and cruel display of reality in front of us, while the former, although not too many lines for the heroine, we seem to be able to see a kind of strength under the weak surface from her body, but from a certain In a sense, this kind of strength may be more precisely a kind of helplessness forced by life. There is a good saying at the end of the film, where you are insulted, you can regain your dignity only by returning to the old place.
In contrast, "Paradise Cinema" is more tender. The little boy Duoduo and the town's only film projectionist, Evert, left a deep impression on the people. Because of their love for movies, the two are linked together. When the movie theater caught fire, Duoduo rescued the unconscious Evert from the fire. Maybe from that moment, the lonely hearts of one old and one young truly came Together. In fact, in the process of growing up, this warm friendship has always accompanied him. At the end of the film, when we see the adult Duoduo sitting alone in the former Paradise Cinema, watching the gift that the deceased Evert carefully left for himself - a spliced version of all the kissing scenes in the old movies, Some warmth and some touching will come to our hearts unconsciously...
or cruel, or warm, Tonadore did not express these emotions deliberately. His stories are often eloquent, his rhythms are often soothing, his images are often natural and beautiful, and his music is often smooth and moving. He swayed his Sicilian complex in the film in a unique way, or he himself was a beautiful legend of Sicily.
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