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Pasolini
Abel Ferrara
(2014)
80min
18 Certificate
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Review
Our Score
by
David Parkinson
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. Embracing the poet-provocateur's contention that narrative is dead, director Abel Ferrara and screenwriter Maurizio Braucci intersperse incidents from his last 48 hours with staged extracts from his unfinished novel,
Petrolio
, and the unfilmed allegory
Porno-Teo-Kolossal
. The latter's orgy sequence shares a brazen disregard for conventional screen tastes with
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
, Pasolini's savage denunciation of the fascist mentality. But neither these reveries nor encounters with friends and family members shed much light on either the man or the Marxist. Willem Dafoe bears a marked resemblance to Pasolini and plays him with a stately intensity. But Ferrara flits between factual and fictional episodes with an arbitrariness that extends to the desultory switches between English and Italian.
Summary
Abel Ferrara's biopic of acclaimed film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1975, his body discovered on a beach near Rome. The film follows the last day of the director's life as he considers his plans for the future in the wake of his controversial final film Salo. Starring Willem Dafoe and Riccardo Scamarcio.
Cast & Crew
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Willem Dafoe
Epifanio
Ninetto Davoli
Ninetto Davoli
Riccardo Scamarcio
Nico Naldini
Valerio Mastandrea
Susanna Pasolini
Adriana Asti
Laura Betti
Maria de Medeiros
Carlo
Roberto Zibetti
Andrea Fago
Andrea Bosca
Graziella
Giada Colagrande
Furia Colombo
Francesco Siciliano
Pino
Damiano Tamilia
Director
Abel Ferrara
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Other Information
Language:
English, Italian, French +subtitles
Colour
Theatrical distributor:
BFI Distribution
Guidance:
Violence, swearing, sex scenes, nudity.
Released on:
11 Sep 2015
Drama
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