Malena Blu-ray Film Studies Prêtre' Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (1961)

Prêtre' Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (1961) French w/ English subtitles

The dialogue is whip smart and the atmosphere oppressively tense

'Dancing at Lughnasa' Director: Pat O'Connor (1998)

But by 1919

emotionally charged drama

Malena Blu-ray Film Studies Prêtre' Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (1961)'Malena' Director: Giuseppe Tornatore (2000) Italian w English subtitles Set in wartime Sicily, Monica Bellucci plays the beautiful woman whose arrival in a small town is met with jealousy and malicious gossip. We see her through they eyes of a 12 year old boy who is bewitched by her presence but begins to notice her loneliness and the cruel effects of narrow mindedness.