Malena DVD Box Sets An updated version of Kermode's

An updated version of Kermode's personal appreciation of William Friedkin's horror classic

An enigmatic and profoundly moving work that merges the worlds of the viewer and of saintly Joan herself into one shared experience of hushed delirium

is commissioned to paint the portrait of a countess's daughter ('Heloise') - a portrait which will be used to appeal to foreign aristocratic potential husbands

- Audio commentary by film historian David Kalat

Malena DVD Box Sets An updated version of Kermode's'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.