Mother's Heart: Plot: The protagonist is a divorced mother (Carla Gravina, still best-known perhaps for playing the possessed lead in THE ANTICHRIST [1974]) of three who may or may not be a mute; we're never actually told, but the fact remains that she doesn't utter a single word during the course of the film (and yet people around her seem to act as if awaiting her reply)! While the children are cared for by a cantankerous old maid, she works at a bookshop - however, the heroine's also involved somehow with a group of revolutionaries. Incidentally, the kids are far more knowledgeable than their years (in the very opening scene, they're engaged in ‘professional' tattooing on each other!) - the eldest, in particular, is himself keen on politics and bio-chemistry (he's obsessed with firing a rocket); it was amusing but, at the same time, weird to hear him accuse his three year-old sibling of being a Communist (which the latter vehemently denies)! And it seems that the precociousness of Gravina's children is not an isolated case, either, as another mother seeking new reading material at the bookshop for her kid (who, she says, is over the traditional Children's Classics such as “Treasure Island” and “Around The World In 80 Days”) is suggested De Sade's “Justine” since it's the story of a little orphan girl!

Starring:

Beba Loncar, Carla Gravina, Ferdinando Murolo, Nicoletta Rizzi, Paolo Graziosi, Philippe Leroy, Rina Franchetti, Roberto Bruni, Rossano Jalenti, Yorgo Voyagis

Genre:

Drama