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Mamma Roma

1962 · 110 min

A raw, compassionate portrait of a mother's struggle, blending neorealist grit with moments of lyrical beauty.

Overview
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 crime and violence.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • class
  • redemption
  • grief
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism9
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Written by
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring
Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano, Paolo Volponi, Luciano Gonini, Vittorio La Paglia
Music
Antonio Vivaldi, Carlo Rustichelli
Cinematography
Tonino Delli Colli
Runtime
110 min
Country
Italy
Languages
Italian

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