Mamma Roma
Dir: Pier Paolo PasoliniCast: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti
110mins 1962 Italy Certificate: 15 Italian
Subtitled Mamma Roma
Part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film
Mamma Roma has worked hard to purchase a fruit stand and build a position of respectability.
Her hope is stability for teenage son Ettore and a new life free from the ghosts of her past. But ghosts have a habit of haunting, and the arrival of former pimp Carmine signals inevitable tragedy.
'Pasolini's second film showcases Anna Magnani with a minimum of sentimentality in a bleak, pitiless Eternal City of the early '60s' - Bill Weber, Slant
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