Mamma Roma
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Italy · 1962
1h 50m
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini
Genre Drama
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After years of sex work in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant.
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It's a movie about a woman who beheads her brother, stabs her children, and sends her lover's wife up in flames. For Maria Callas, it's a natural.
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- Italy, France, West Germany • 1970
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast María Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile, Margareth Clémenti, Paul Jabara
- Genre Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Criterion Channel