The Rose Tattoo

“The boldest story of love you have ever been permitted to see! Seething with realism and frankness!”

Serafina Delle Rose (Anna Magnani) is a widow who keeps to her house and her grief, until she learns her late husband had been cheating on her. A new romance enters her life in Alvaro Mangiacavallo (Burt Lancaster), and her mourning starts to loosen. Daniel Mann adapts the Tennessee Williams play, written for Magnani, and builds the film around her full voice and her whole body.