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Mamma Roma - Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Directed by: 
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Story by: 
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Screenplay by: 
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Produced by: 
Alfredo Bini
Release year: 
1962
Country: 
Italy
Runtime: 
120min
Genre: 
Drama
Music by: 
Antonio Vivaldi
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Plot: 
Mamma Roma is a middle-aged whore of Roma. Now she can quit her job to become a fruit seller. And she can take back her 16-year-old son, Ettore. For him, she dreams of a good position. But it is perhaps too late for Ettore, whose company includes mostly teenaged louts...
Cast: 
Anna Magnani
as
Mamma Roma
Ettore Garofolo
as
Ettore
Franco Citti
as
Carmine
Silvana Corsini
as
Bruna
Luisa Loiano
as
Biancofiore
Paolo Volponi
as
Il Prete
Luciano Gonini
as
Zacaria
Vittorio La Paglia
as
Il sig. Pellissier
Piero Morgia
as
Piero
Pietro Ceccarelli
as
Carletto
Marcello Sorrentino
as
Tonino

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Review by HALfie

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“Mamma Roma” is a mix of formal audacity, unexpected candour and heart-breaking compassion, the result is a work of disarming beauty.

Anna Magnani is the only professional actress, but her charismatic and incisive acting perfectly balances the lack of professional actors.

Pasolini uses Christian symbolism as a contrast with the degradation of life on the street, accompaning scenes with Vivaldi’s pieces and recalling Mantegna’s painting.

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
When Harry Met Sally, 1989