Mamma Roma
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Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
1962 / 110min / 35mm
Famed for her seemingly spontaneous, volcanic displays of emotion on screen, Anna Magnani, has perhaps her supreme role as the middle-aged sex worker nicknamed “Mamma Roma,” a footsore veteran of the street who lives only to imagine a better life for her teenage son who, newly arrived in the Italian capital from the country, begins to slip inextricably towards delinquency. Pasolini may have made greater films, but he never made one as awesomely moving—proof that the master of cinematic modernism was a magnificent melodramatist as well.
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