Mamma Roma
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Mamma Roma is a 1962 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo and Franco Citti. [1] [2] Synopsis. After her pimp Carmine marries, prostitute Mamma Roma starts a new life as a marketer in Rome to enable her 16-year-old son Ettore a better life.
Mamma Roma: Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini. An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.
A classic neorealist drama about a prostitute who tries to reform her life for her son in postwar Italy. Starring Anna Magnani, the film was banned for obscenity but is now praised for its realism and Pasolini's style.
With a fervent yearning for respectability and enough money to buy herself a brand-new life in Rome, the uninhibited, fearless, determined former streetwalker Mamma Roma renounces her ignominious past to reunite with her loafing 16-year-old son Ettore.
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant.
23 Jun 2020 · A face deformed by a cry covers the entire canvas, without offering a way out of this deeply distressing spectacle. The face is that of actress Anna Magnani, crying with pain after losing her son in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1962 film Mamma Roma.
In postwar Rome, Mamma is ready to give up her life as a prostitute and bring her son Ettore to live with her in the city. She moves to a respectable neighborhood, hoping that Ettore will go to school, get a good job, and marry. But Ettore is lazy, taking for granted the gains his mother provides.
