Directed by:
Pier Paolo PasoliniScreenplay:
Pier Paolo PasoliniCinematography:
Tonino Delli ColliCast:
Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Silvana Corsini, Franco Citti, Luisa Loiano, Lamberto Maggiorani, Pietro Ceccarelli, Renato Montalbano, Piero Morgia (more)Plots(1)
Anna Magnani is Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Filmed in the great tradition of Italian neorealism, Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy, and highlights director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s lifelong fascination with the marginalized and dispossessed. (official distributor synopsis)
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Mamma Roma is a more mature film compared to Pier Paolo Pasolini's debut, Accattone, which expressed a too great fascination with the world of prostitutes and pimps. In this film, Pasolini shows more of the flip side of life on the outskirts of the city and society. His characters are examples of naive dreams and the painful inability to cross the boundaries of their social class and position. The film is depressing not only because it shows the housing estates without proper infrastructure beyond the borders of better districts, worn-out prostitutes, arrogant pimps, and poor peripheral residents, but also because of the story itself, which ends tragically. Overall impression: 75%. Pasolini once again does not deny his left-wing beliefs as he sympathizes with his characters from the bottom of human society, despite their imperfections, and does no unnecessarily moralize their actions.
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