Mamma Roma
Mamma Roma

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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. Free at last from her disgusting pimp and ex-lover Carmine, Roma is bent on making an honest living running a humble vegetable stall, but a malicious extortion scheme and the equally insidious menace of exposure threaten to put... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Mamma Roma:

Anna Magnani
Ettore Garofolo
Franco Citti
Silvana Corsini
Luisa Loiano
Paolo Volponi

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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. Free at last from her disgusting pimp and ex-lover Carmine, Roma is bent on making an honest living running a humble vegetable stall, but a malicious extortion scheme and the equally insidious menace of exposure threaten to put an end to her zealous aspirations for a decent bourgeois existence. For his own sake, Ettore must be spared the violence of the adult world; nevertheless, can a lone single mother protect her only son from the same snares that wounded her youth?

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Turner Classic Movies Online - 10/10 by Sean Axmaker... draws from the neo-realist tradition, but Pasolini goes beyond the tradition to play with the form and structure.
CinePassion - 9/10 by Fernando F. CroceA world at once mundane and monumental for Pier Paolo Pasolini
Slant Magazine - 9/10 by Bill WeberPasolini's second film showcases Anna Magnani with a minimum of sentimentality in a bleak, pitiless Eternal City of the early '60s.
The Spectator - 9/10 by Isabel QuiglyIt almost inevitably dis- appoints, one is tempted to a bit of hindsight and reassessment.
Time Out - 8/10 by David FearA key transitional work for the cinematic subversive, a seriously damning portrait of maternal martyrdom and, in a killer final shot, upward mobility.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You - 8/10 by Rumsey TaylorBecause it is sublime, and because the confrontation of many of Pasolini's films can be an intimidation, it is among the controversial director's best films.
User Review - 10/10 by miruna .*Spoilers* Among the films I would consider "raw cinema". Shot in powerful black & white, with constantly stunning visuals. A story of a teen (Ettore) and his mother (Mamma Roma). The teen in unable to put his thoughts and emotions in the right places, so his mother, try's to do so by trying to give him a future. Doing so, Mamma Roma can't put her thoughts in the right places either. They both try to continue their lives as they did before Mamma Roma trying to help her son. Things start to slide out of their control, and once they almost hit rock bottom in that, they begin to hate each other, because all the shameful things in there lives get in the way of their mother-son relationship. Ettore gets arrested and even more shame grows, and they both grow nostalgic for the past. Throughout the film, it is slightly surreal, especially the ending, but it's always powerful, beautiful, and emotional. One of the greatest shots in the film is when Mamma Roma is with the fellow prostitutes, and she wanders around the pitch-black parking lot at night and she expresses her thoughts the people around there. They do this more than once, in which, Mamma Roma's thoughts gradually get more bleak and less enjoyable for those listening. The film, while it exceeds so much in character study, so much in visuals, so much in it's subtle story, and well, in what it keeps subtle, it has terrific pacing. It's pacing is comparable to "Goodfellas". Though the two films are entirely different, it does have that same perfectly timed decent to rock bottom. And they try to continue their same routines throughout, even with things obviously getting more hectic. Pasolini hasn't had an illiterate moment in his career, and this is certainly a highlight. Among my personal favorite films, and a cinematic gem for everyone.
User Review - 10/10 by Jon POffering a raw snapshot of family struggles in post-fascist Italy, Pier Paulo Pasolini's dingy drama is a neo-realist gem. Anna Magnani shines as cackling ex-prostitute, Mamma Roma. But Pasolini's picture is really a story about wandering boyhood and disenchanted youth. And a remarkably perceptive one at that. Pasolini is a master of character and of framing; many shots evoking famous Christian Italian paintings and myth. Glorious cinema in both function and form.
User Review - 10/10 by Private UAnna Magnani's performance is spectacular in this film!
User Review - 10/10 by Elsa NA stunning performance from Anna Magnani as a Roman prostitute who when her pimp marries a local country girl goes and finds her son Ettore and moves away to Rome where she starts a fruit and veg stall on a market. Pretty soon however her pimp is back demanding she go back on the game in order to make him some more money. An incredible film by Pier Paolo Pasolini in which Magnani bonds beautifully with her son played by Ettore Garofolo and shot entirely on location as Rome recovered from the ravages of the war.

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