Completed - ITALIAN - Documentary - 63 minutes
An entirely new and absolutely reliable interpretation of one of the most disturbing films of the 1970’s which projects Pasolini’s powerful, ruthless analysis of an Italian society perennially on the brink of the abyss of Fascism.
Year of production : 2006 Director(s) : Giuseppe BERTOLUCCI Writer(s) : Giuseppe BERTOLUCCI Cast : Pier Paolo PASOLINI Producer(s) : Angelo salvatore DRAICCHIO (Ripley's Film)
A calm, unmistakable voice emerges from the hubbub of a busy, well-organized film set. It is the voice of Pier Paolo Pasolini, working on the final stages of his last, highly contested (and posthumous) film: Salo, or The 120 days of Sodom.Despite the enormous controversies the film was causing even before it had come out, a calm, almost joyful Pasolini accepted being followed around the set by a small team headed by the journalist Gideon Bachmann who engaged him in a long, extraordinary interview/conversation.Initially baffled, Pasolini then turned the interview into a lucid, violent attack on society, an alarm call which, together with the pictures of the set, generates an intriguing overlapping between the film and reality, revealing Pasolini’s metaphoric staging of modern life. This is an unknown Pasolini, dramatically desperate and detached in the way he denies himself and others a chance, a future, though it is hinted at in the cathartic, liberating original finale of the film discarded by the director and reconstructed here photographically.
Country(ies) : ITALY