Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment Run time: 106mins Year: 1962 Release date: RRP:$ 29.99$ 14.99
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Paolo Pasolini's (Accatone, Salo) neorealist masterpiece stars the
great Anna Magnani (Open City) as a middle-aged whore who saves money
to buy an apartment, a fruit stand and retire from working the streets
of Rome.
She soon brings her beloved teenage son Ettore from the
country to live with her; but Ettore quickly succumbs to the corrupting
influence of the city, falling in with local gangs and developing a
fatal crush on a disreputable girl. Wanting to make Ettore an honest
man while rebuilding her own life, Mamma Roma’s greatest challenge is
her past, which inevitably comes back to haunt her.
Declared obscene
when it premièred at the 1962 Venice International Film Festival, Mamma
Roma was heavily censored on release, and now comes to DVD as Pasolini
intended. In the neorealist tradition of Luchino Visconti and Vittorio
de Sica, this tough, streetwise film explores the lives of the poor and
marginalised in the mean streets of post-war Rome, and launched
Pasolini’s infamous film career.
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