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Cycladic Screening “Mamma Roma”<\/h1>

YOUNG FRIENDS<\/p>

JULY 29, 2025<\/p><\/header>

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\n As part of the exhibition Marlene Dumas. Cycladic Blues, the Museum of Cycladic Art collaborated with the 15th Athens Open Air Film Festival powered by \u0394\u0395\u0397 and organized the Cycladic Screening at the Parko Eleftherias, where it secured 20 double invitations exclusively for the Cycladic Young Friends.
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\r\nThis event featured the screening of the film \u201cMamma Roma\u201d directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, selected by Marlene Dumas.\n <\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
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Marlene Dumas maintains a constant interest in cinema and its potential as a medium of storytelling and expression. She is particularly interested in films that focus on intense emotional situations, the representation of the body, and social or psychological marginalization. She has cited the influence of Italian neorealism and Pasolini, while elements of cinematic aesthetics\u2014such as dramatic compositions, striking close-ups, and atmospheric qualities\u2014are evident in several of her works.<\/p>\n

“MAMMA ROMA” | 1964, 106\u2019<\/p>\n

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini<\/p>\n

Starring: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti<\/p>\n

A year after his directorial debut with “Acatone”, Pasolini continued his social recording of the margins, observed a lavish prostitute in a noisy (eternal) city and recounted with reverence a Christian allegory that elevated a deity: Anna Magnani. In the story of an honest prostitute who tried to secure a better \u2013 according to petit bourgeois standards – future for her son, Magnani devoted herself entirely to the man had given birth to, rather than to those who imposed themselves transactionally and insatiably upon her.<\/p>\n

With the camera as the key witness of the everyday, tragic grandeur, Pasolini confined the \u201cbrilliant dream\u201d of \u201cMama Roma\u201d within its narrow cinematic frames and characteristically mocked the illusion of a longing for escape. Escape proved possible, the shadows of the districts of Rome foreshadowed the dramatic finale, and fate continued to play its own undisturbed and timeless game. The struggle, however, for a better life remained the most important motivation and in the black and white world of \u201cMama Roma\u201d, the symbol of this struggle was the face of a \u201cmother of courage\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was hardly a coincidence that \u00a0Pasolini\u2019s next film was \u201cThe Gospel According to Matthew\u201d.<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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