Tag: Anna Magnani
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#21: The Passionate Thief (Mario Monicelli, 1960)
Mario Monicelli’s New Year’s Eve-set comedy surfaces generational divides, power dynamics, and deception.
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Mamma Roma (1962)
Pasolini takes us to the outskirts of life and challenges our assumptions in the moving and intelligent Mamma Roma. Almost a mix of Nights of Cabiria with Mildred Pierce, this thoughtful tale of a woman who will do anything for her son leaves nothing at face value, and pulses with the confusion and pain of everyday life. Anna…