Mamma Roma
Pier Paolo Pasolini / IT, 1962 / 106 min.
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 be a headstrong teenager determined to associate with the wrong crowd.
This is part of
Details
Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Production year
1962
Country
IT
Original title
Mamma Roma
Length
106 min.
Language
Italian
Subtitles
ENG or NLD
Format
DCP
Part of
Eye Classics
Eye’s collection includes a wealth of classics. With the Eye Classics series, Eye brings film history even closer. Every week, we screen at least three classics from the collection under one recognisable name: Eye Classics.
Planning on having a drink or a bite to eat? Book online for Eye Bar & Restaurant.
Share your love for film and become a member of the Eye Society.
Share your love for film and become a member of the Eye Society.
NLEN