Taking the focus away from solely being about Malena and Klepetan's love story, the film promises to reveal more about the nurturing of Malena herself.
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The movie premiered in Croatian cinemas back in May 2021, but now you can also watch it online with English subtitles on Vimeo on demand.
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The director of the film is Tomislav Jelinčić, whom the Croatian audience know best as a journalist, editor, and TV host at RTL television. ''The story of a retired and widowed man from Slavonski Brod amazed many, kept our hearts warm and returned a feeling of hope that man and nature still have sympathy for each other and that the love between humans and animals can withstand even the biggest obstacles in their way,'' reads the movie description on Culturenet. So much so, it inspired a documentary film produced in 2020 and titled ''The Storkman''. This makes Klepetan's return every year after the two first met in 2002 all the more interesting, showing animals have both love and loyalty humans could learn a lot from. Vokić's nurturing saved her life, but Malena couldn't fly anymore and, unlike many storks flying south every year, had to stay in the village forever. Her wing had been shot through, and Vokić rescued her. The love birds filled Croatian and global news outlets for nineteen years and it all started with Brodski Varoš resident Stjepan Vokić. It doesn't help that the movie's action grows steadily gloomier, leading to a public humiliation that seems wildly out of scale with what has gone before and to an ending that is intended to move us much more deeply, alas, than it can.OctoThe Storkman Movie is a documentary about rescuing the famous Croatian stork called Malena, who sadly passed away earlier this year.Ĭroatian and international animal lovers were sad due to the tragic loss earlier in July of 2021 when the beloved stork Malena (a Croatian word that can be roughly be translated as little one when talking to/about a female) passed away.Īs many already know, Malena was the stork Guillette to Klepetan, a male stork who would always return to her in the Slavonian village of Brodski Varoš, located not too far from Slavonski Brod. "Malena" is a simpler story, in which a young man grows up transfixed by a woman and essentially marries himself to the idea of her. Please.) But Fellini sees the humor that underlies sexual obsession, except (usually but not always) in the eyes of the participants. She continues to shine brightly in Renato's eyes, however, even after his field of knowledge is broadened when his father takes him to a bordello for the old "I give you the boy-give me back the man" routine.įellini's films often involve adolescents inflamed by women who embody their carnal desires. This descent in the world requires her to spend a great deal of time half-dressed before Tornatore's appreciative camera. She must abandon her teaching job because of the unjustified scandal and eventually is reduced by wartime poverty to dating German soldiers. The story involves Malena's bad luck after her husband is called up by the army and her good name is sullied by local gossip. They use Malena as subject matter for their autoerotic pastimes, but for Renato, she is more like a dream, like a heroine, like a woman he wants to protect from herself-with his bare hands, hopefully. The story is told by Renato ( Giuseppe Sulfaro), who as the movie opens is admitted to the local fraternity of girl-watchers. Malena, who is a schoolteacher and of at least average intelligence, must be aware of her effect on the collective local male libido, but seems blissfully oblivious her role is not so much dramatic as pictorial (a word I am using in the Playboy sense). She is all they can imagine a woman could be, arousing their imaginations, and more, with her languorous swaying passage. In a Italian town in 1940, a group of adolescent boys waits for the beautiful Malena to pass by. The setup scenes are like low-rent Fellini.
There is noting quite so awkward as a film that is one thing while it pretends to be another. The film torturously tries to transform this theme in scenes of comedy, nostalgia and bittersweet regret, but somehow we doubt its sincerity, maybe because the camera lingers so lovingly on the callipygian charms of the actress Monica Bellucci.
Giuseppe Tornatore's "Malena" tells the story of a woman whose life is destroyed because she has the misfortune to be beautiful and have a great butt.