In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini and the 60th anniversary of his film Mamma Roma, Cinéma Public, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, presents a restored print of the film as part of its Voyages en Italie series.
Mamma Roma, a prostitute in her forties, decides to change her life the day her young pimp, Carmine, marries a peasant woman. She then rushes to get back her son Ettore, 16 years old, who grew up far away from her, in the countryside. Now a saleswoman in a small market, Mamma Roma moves with him into an apartment in a new suburb of Rome. One day, the teenager learns about his mother’s past…
Saturday October 8 – 7pm
Casa d’Italia
505 Rue Jean Talon E. – Montréal
Mamma Roma by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy | 1962 | 1 h 50 min | Italian | Subtitles : English
General admission: $10 – Ticketing
Voyages en Italie
In a nod to Casa d’Italia and its home in Little Italy, this series invites the audience to travel to the four corners of the country – Venice, Palermo, Umbria – along real and surreal paths, on roads both unsettling and enchanting. As in Roberto Rossellini’s masterpiece Viaggio in Italia (1954), which sees the Joyce couple’s marriage fall apart under the scorching sun of southern Italy, the films in this series are not content with maintaining the status quo. They question their world, our world. They confront humanity at its most banal and extraordinary. They reveal a society always on the brink yet managing to find a fragile and creative balance. They give a voice to men and women in a perpetual search for love and meaning.
