If it's possible to take a loving and empathic approach to decidedly intractable material, the director Michael Attenborough achieves precisely that with Filumena, in which Samantha Spiro follows on from (and surpasses) Judi Dench in author Eduardo De Filippo's title role of the onetime Neapolitan prostitute who in early middle-age decides that what matters most is to be una mamma.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:02PM on March 24, 2012