Ettore Garofolo has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Mamma Roma.
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti
Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family. His whole life is now based on defending the money he sees as his own, while the rest of the family tries to kill him.
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Nino Manfredi, Francesco Anniballi, Maria Bosco
