With MALNA Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore spins a romantic coming-of-age yarn about love loss and courage. Set in 1941 in a tiny village in Sicily the film focuses on a group of 13-year-old boys who fall madly in love with Malna Monica Bellucci the wife of a local soldier. One of the boys Renato Amoroso Giuseppe Sulfaro a dreamer who yearns for freedom from his war-bound village revels in the exquisite beauty of the enchanting newcomer. He becomes her shadow following her through the cobble stone streets and spying on her most intimate moments overwhelmed with romantic longing for the first time. Malna has a magical spellbinding effect on the male villagers; her presence inspires fantasy and escape from their daily lives. But the women of the village hardened by war are quick to judge the nubile outsider. Malna becomes the focus of desire and seething jealousy in the town and she is eventually forced to face the female villagers in a bittersweet climax. Reminiscent of Federico Fellini's nostalgic masterp