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BLEAK WEEK: SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM
1975
Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring
Paolo Bonacelli
Giorgio Cataldi
Uberto P. Quintavalle
Aldo Valletti
Runtime
116 minutes
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The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini, SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic... It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
“A heartfelt cry of outrage, SALO was conceived by its writer-director, the aging enfant terrible of Italian cinema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, as an act of revenge against twin terrors menacing the modern condition: the stifling wet blanket of consumer capitalism and lingering traces of totalitarianism, still ensconced in positions of authority, both of which he believed were ineluctable, corrosive influences on modern society. Turning his back on the exuberant, earthy sexuality celebrated in his previous three films, collectively known as the TRILOGY OF LIFE, Pasolini handed down a deadly earnest indictment of unchecked power’s commoditization and manipulation of the human form, yielding what Elaine Scarry dubbed, with terrible simplicity, ‘the body in pain.’ A bracing cinematic buzzkill, SALOwill wipe that shit-eating grin right off your face.” - Budd Wilkins, Slant
The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini, SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic... It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
“A heartfelt cry of outrage, SALO was conceived by its writer-director, the aging enfant terrible of Italian cinema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, as an act of revenge against twin terrors menacing the modern condition: the stifling wet blanket of consumer capitalism and lingering traces of totalitarianism, still ensconced in positions of authority, both of which he believed were ineluctable, corrosive influences on modern society. Turning his back on the exuberant, earthy sexuality celebrated in his previous three films, collectively known as the TRILOGY OF LIFE, Pasolini handed down a deadly earnest indictment of unchecked power’s commoditization and manipulation of the human form, yielding what Elaine Scarry dubbed, with terrible simplicity, ‘the body in pain.’ A bracing cinematic buzzkill, SALOwill wipe that shit-eating grin right off your face.” - Budd Wilkins, Slant