Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Cuidadoras
  • First Lady (The)
  • Noah's Arc: The Movie
  • Franklin
  • Thunderbolts*
  • Beneath the Scar: A Story of Resilience
  • Krishna Arjun
  • Eva i Bea
  • Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus
  • Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole (A)
  • Only Good Things
  • Transaction
  • Lioness
  • On the Streets (of Lagos)
  • Then & Now
  • Christmas Reunion (A)
  • Songs Inside
  • We Exist
  • Side Effects
  • Loulou
  • Murderbot
  • VIH: La causa justa
  • Teacher's Pet
  • More Perfect Union (A)
  • Next to Us
  • I Was Born This Way
  • Hal & Harper
  • State of Firsts
  • Outerlands
  • Secret Lives of My Three Men (The)
  • Latter-Day Glory: The Aftermath of Growing Up Queer in the LDS Church
  • Monk in Pieces
  • Flamingo Camp
  • Lurker
  • Wicked: For Good
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
  • Tomorrow's Too Late
  • War Between the Land and the Sea (The)
  • Tom Daley: 1.6 Seconds
Minor Interest

CGiii Rating

Female Prostitution | Minor Gay Interest | Religion | Teen

Public Rating

Mamma Roma

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 106 mins

Minor Interest | Drama | 1962
  • Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Writer: Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Producer: Alfredo Bini

CGiii Comment

Pasolini's second film and a vast improvement on his first, Accattone.

The themes are similar, the acting is better...but, it's the writing...too many loose and frayed ends.

There is a great story here...but, by the end, it simply falls apart - leaving you quite cold.

Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who was raised alone in the country, to live with her, and Ettore becomes her pride and joy. However, the boy that does not want to study or work, joins to idle friends, has a crush on a bitch, and Mamma Roma uses her best but limited efforts to straight Ettore and make him an honest man. However, her past haunts her with tragic consequences.

Cast & Characters

Anna Magnani as Mamma Roma;
Ettore Garofolo as Ettore;
Franco Citti as Carmine;
Silvana Corsini as Bruna;
Luisa Loiano as Biancofiore;
Paolo Volponi as Il Prete;
Luciano Gonini as Zacaria;
Vittorio La Paglia as Il sig. Pellissier;
Piero Morgia as Piero;
Lanfranco Ceccarelli as Carletto;
Marcello Sorrentino as Tonino;
Sandro Meschino as Pasquale;
Franco Tovo as Augusto;
Pasquale Ferrarese as Lino;
Leandro Santarelli as Begalo

IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056215