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Mamma Roma

Cinema Salon
(1962, 110 mins, 35mm)
CAST Anna Magnani, Franco Citti
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Introduced by Mauro Vescera
Before accepting his position as Executive Director at Vancouver’s Italian Cultural Centre, Mauro Vescera was SFU’s Director of Advancement for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Program Director at Vancouver Foundation, Canada’s largest community foundation. Mauro currently sits on two non-profit boards, the Small Change Fund and Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation. He has a MA in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University, a post-graduate diploma in Renaissance History from the Universita Degli Studi di Firenze, and a BA from UBC. He is a great tennis player and makes a mean tagliatelli.

Anna Magnani, possibly the finest actress of Italian neo-realism, is Mamma Roma, celebrating her break from prostitution by inviting herself to her pimp’s wedding. Now freed from her life of abuse and humiliation, Mamma Roma brings her teen-age son back to Rome to give him a better life. But her past returns and the struggle for survival in post-war Italy encapsulates Pasolini’s fascination with the marginalized and the dispossessed. The film, banned in Italy after its release and not screened in the US until 1995, is now a classic of Italian cinema.

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