Monica Bellucci

Malena
$32.99
I enjoyed this movie, but it is distressing because it happened too many times at the end of WW2. It shows both the strengths and weaknesses of human character. It also shows how easy it is for a society to ravage and ruin someone's life, especially a woman or stranger. Monica does a good and perhaps great job playing her character, and if you like the "grown up" narration of the narrator's past, i.e. The Wonder Years or Sandlot, then you should like this movie as well. The only aspect that I did not find totally credible, is when Monica surrenders to the town's expectations of her in order to get food, she seemingly disliked sleeping with an Italian leader but later in the movie, seemingly enjoys sleeping with multiple Germans. Given that she continues to love her husband throughout the movie, I find it hard to believe that she would give herself totally over to the Germans even when it was the only choice to get food. I am not saying that she may not have had a good time, but given the theme of the movie being the tragedy of what happens to her and her love for her husband, it would seem contradictary to then have her enjoy being a prostitute given that the town forced her into it. Overall it tells the very real story of many women and other strangers in a setting that happened in many towns in Europe during and after WW2, and in other places during other major wars.

The Apartment
$9.98
One facet of this movie that no one mentions but it really is a factor is that two of the actors on the screen are perhaps the sexiest, most magnetic and charismatic stars movie goers have seen in awhile. These two are Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci. They made the movie in 1996 and actually married one another in 1999. IMDB lists them as still married. So perhaps the film was helped by this real life sizzling and chemistry. It is difficult to shoot a film involving love, attraction and sexuality if the two actors are absolutely flat with no chemistry between them. This French film involves them as former lovers who cannot find one another again. He does spot her one day and follows her to her apartment. However, when he hides in her apartment, he discovers it is someone who looks like her who lives there. But he was sure he saw her, not this other woman. This is a very nuanced, layered film. Cassel is definitely the lead because the camera is always on him and he is the one who is searching. Just writing about it, I feel another watching coming on! Some have compared this to Hitchcock and De Palma and it is a fair comparison. Truffaut was another Frenchman who paid homage to Hitchcock with THE BRIDE WORE BLACK. This film is like that one in style, elan and suspense.

Brotherhood of the Wolf - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
$14.98
Well paced horror film that keeps viewer in suspense. Some formula aspects to the film, but still very enjoyable to watch. Photography is excellent and the acting is, for the most part, outstanding.

Kidult Eva Mendes In Fucky Kidulthood Poster With Anne Hathaway & Denise Richards Beg Rachel Mcadams: Let Naomi Watts, Matthew Mcconaughey, Tara Reid & Monica Bellucci Calendar Sex Movies Biography
$11.11
Fuck. It's one of those words that sounds completely made up; as if pulled from the pages of a Nigel Tomm's abstract novel - but in fact, quite the opposite is true. Reading Nigel Tomm is a small adventure that one undertakes before doing something profoundly conventional. For Eva Mendes, Anne Hathaway, Denise Richards, Rachel McAdams, Naomi Watts, Matthew McConaughey, Tara Reid and Monica Bellucci the present book is 99.995% reality and 0.005% art. For the rest it's 99.995% art and 0.005% reality. Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy. This is twisted abstract literature at its best.