Mamma Roma I 1962, R: Pier Paolo Pasolini mit Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, 106 min, OmeU - Im Anschluß Aperitivo und Gespräch
Eine der schönsten Mutter-Sohn-Beziehungen der Filmgeschichte! For ENGLISH SCROLL DOWN
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One of the most beautiful mother-son relationships in film history!
Mamma Roma is set in the same middle-class milieu as Accattone, but the protagonist is a woman, Anna Magnani as a Roman prostitute who wants to change her life to devote herself to her son Ettore.
Sergio Citti is an important advisor for the dialogues in Roman dialect, which are performed by amateur actors, apart from the great Magnani. These are the themes that are close to Pasolini's heart and will accompany him throughout his artistic life: the outcasts, the underclass trapped in a ghetto of communication with other social classes, the defeat of the dispossessed, the impossibility of freeing oneself from a fate of suffering.
Anna Magnani does not get along with the director: their respective views of the world do not coincide, but despite everything, she gives a memorable performance. Her Mamma Roma is a courageous mother who suffers over the fate of her rebellious son, who is seized by adolescent storms and reciprocates her love but does not know how to express it.
‘My mother? What do I care about my mother? Deep down, I believe I love her, because if she died, I would cry,’ he confesses to Bruna, the girl who makes him a man.
The prostitute Roma wants to give up her old life and start a middle-class existence with her almost adult son, but it is anything but easy to break away from her past. It constantly catches up with her and threatens to destroy her imminent middle-class happiness.