Pasolini
The movie tells the story of the final days of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975 while he's in the process of defending his latest film Salo, 120 Days of Sodom from the censors.
30 April 1931, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
27 March 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
13 November 1979, Andria, Puglia, Italy
20 April 1968, Rome, Lazio, Italy
22 December 1967, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
11 October 1948, San Pietro a Maida, Calabria, Italy
5 April 1975, Conegliano, Veneto, Italy
3 April 1972, Rome, Lazio, Italy
September 11, 2015
Even cineastes with a good working knowledge of Pier Paolo Pasolini's life and works are going to struggle to navigate this capriciously intricate account of his final days in November 1975.
September 08, 2014
The result borders on incoherence, providing few startling insights for aficionados and minimal illumination for the uninitiated.
March 11, 2016
It is difficult for anyone unfamiliar with Pasolini to keep track and to appreciate all of the details in what is undoubtedly a lovingly researched but ultimately hard-to-grasp homage.
September 11, 2015
Despite Ferrara's insistence that he and his key crew are devout students of Pasolini's cinema, he applies the lessons of this apprenticeship freely, without mimicry.
February 18, 2016
Despite notable complications rising from casting, concept, and structure, the film works remarkably well.
September 11, 2014
A flawed film of unvarnished integrity.
September 08, 2014
Presumably, to understand Pasolini is to excavate him from the twisted miasma Ferrara has created in his image.
September 13, 2015
The heady cocktail of politics, religion, blowjobs and murder is catnip for Ferrara, although anyone not versed in the controversies of Salò may leave the film none the wiser.
March 12, 2016
It's an absorbing portrait, particularly compelling when relying on Pasolini's own words, which we hear verbatim through original letters and interviews.
September 11, 2015
The film isn't so much a conventional narrative as an elegy and a parable.
June 06, 2016
Abel Ferrara's reverent portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini's last day alive serves as both a fan's impassioned eulogy and a speculative glimpse at what might have transpired.
