Pier Paolo Pasolini’s second feature film grew to become one of Italy’s greatest classics ever. Anna Magnani plays the unflappable sex worker and market trader Mamma Roma whom Pasolini makes the beacon of his city. Masterful, warm-blooded performance from Magnani. 4K restoration.
Pasolini’s second fiction feature closely follows the trail blazed by neorealist films such as Rossellini's Roma, città aperta (1945). But above all, Mamma Roma is a superb showcase for Magnani playing a prostitute who believes she can escape her red-light existence when her pimp, Carmine, gets married. She becomes a market vendor and also arranges a job for her uncommunicative seventeen-year-old son, Ettore.
Her dream of a respectable life soon falls apart when the apple of her eye proves to…
