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ITALY · 1962
Mamma Roma
Synopsis
After years spent working as a prostitute 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. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crim
Cinematic DNA
Yes, exactly. I’m thinking of Pasolini’s first films, like ‘Accattone’ or ‘Mamma Roma.’ Because for us, when we were making our first films, we didn’t want to go in a very elaborate aesthetic direction. We didn’t want to try to invent new film language. We wanted to tell a story with a very straightforward approach, very direct, very close to the character, to what they’re feeling and living, so we can make the spectator experience the same sensation as the characters. So for that, Pasolini’s ea
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prostitute · wedding · church · thief · rome, italy
