Mamma Roma
Italy • 1962
Director
#236Criterion Collection →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 crime and violence.
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 crime and violence.
Part of Box Set
Criterion Closet Pick
(1)
Credits
Crew
DirectorPier Paolo Pasolini
WriterPier Paolo Pasolini
CinematographerTonino Delli Colli
ComposerAntonio Vivaldi, Carlo Rustichelli
EditorNino Baragli
ProducerAlfredo Bini