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This is The Pasolini Project, a monthly discussion series from Adrianna Gober and Doug Tilley delving into a vast body of work that, until relatively recently, had not been widely available on home video: the films of director, poet, journalist, and philosopher, Pier Paolo Pasolini. We’ll be exploring Pasolini’s filmography in chronological order, taking occasional detours through his staggeringly extensive artistic efforts outside of film, as well as the work of his collaborators and other related media.
For Part Two of our deep dive into all things Pasolini, we’re packing our bags and heading to Rome for a look at Pasolini’s second feature-length film, the 1962 drama Mamma Roma. For Part 1 in the series, click here.
Caution: the following discussion contains spoilers.
THE MOVIE
Set against the backdrop of post-war Italy, Mamma Roma features Anna Magnani in a tour-de-force performance as the titular Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute working to distance herself from life on the streets for the sake of her son, Ettore (Ettore Garofolo). When Ettore’s rebelliousness and the return of an unwelcome figure from Mamma Roma’s past complicate her efforts to establish a new life, conflicts come to a head with tragic consequences.
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LIFEFILMLOVE
Few artists were able to stir the crowd the way Pier Paolo Pasolini did. The Italian artist from Bologna – who, when asked what people should label him (poet? filmmaker? novelist? revolutionary?), simply replied ‘writer’ as in the one who was put on this earth to chronicle the lives of others, the less fortunate ones, the oppressed and lonely – was a man despised and loved in equal measure, with fascists rallying at his film screenings and threatening violence, communists denouncing him and distancing themselves from his ideas, and people of all creeds and colors either recognizing their own reflections in his work or refusing to do so.
Pasolini, whose unsolved assassination in 1975 somehow defined the way he’d lived, emerged from the Italian neorealist movement and the school of Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini and Luchino Visconti, but soon learned to craft his own vision, incorporating various taboo subjects that went against the ideals of public morality in his work and growing more and more outspoken about the flaws of modern society. His last film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, is now regarded as one of the finest examples of controversial filmmaking, and a painful cry for help on the part of an artist who was clear
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Mamma Roma point of view the Conflicted Passions a mixture of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Issue 70 | Strut 2014
“I attraction life unexceptional fiercely, unexceptional desperately, delay nothing advantage can adopt of it.”
– Technically inaccurate dock Paolo Pasolini (1960) (1)
“Pasolini (in his death) has successfully evaded the bodily synthesis, captain reproposes take turns his cadaver all picture contradictions put off characterised his multifarious activities.”
– Assume Ranvaud (2)
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