Filmhouse/New Film Club of Kalamata-MAMA ROMA

When her promoter gets married and leaves her, Mama Roma, a prostitute, decides to change her profession and moves to a small-town neighbourhood in Rome. She takes her teenage son with her, who until then is unaware of his mother's past. Mama Roma will do everything humanly possible to prevent her son, Ettore, from getting involved with the underworld and the criminal world. Still, at some point, Ettore learns about his mother's former profession, and the situation takes a tragic turn.

With Anna Magnani giving, without exaggeration, one of the most insurmountable performances in the history of cinema, Antonio Vivaldi's music as a "carpet" and a script with the essence of ancient Greek drama, Pasolini places one of his favorite subjects at the center of his frame; the lumpen proletariat. Combining neorealism with poetry with unparalleled mastery, the late Italian auteur in this second film will record with his camera the world of the desperate, the ruins left by war and fascism and death as the highest point of the epic and the mythical.

The film received several honours at the 1962 Venice Film Festival. The director was nominated for the Golden Lion and the Italian Film Association Award, and Anna Magnani received the New Film Award for Best Actress.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26th
MAMA ROMA
Drama | 13+ | 1962 | It | 106’
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti
General admission is 5 euros. Admission is 3 euros for the unemployed, families with many children and students, and free for those under 18.