Pasolini (film)

Pasolini

Film poster
Directed by Abel Ferrara
Produced by Thierry Lounas
Written by Abel Ferrara
Starring Willem Dafoe
Maria de Medeiros
Ninetto Davoli
Riccardo Scamarcio
Cinematography Stefano Falivene
Distributed by Euro Pictures
Release dates
  • 4 September 2014 (Venice)
  • 25 September 2014 (Italy)
Running time
 86 minutes
Country France
Italy
Belgium
Language English
Italian
French

Pasolini is a 2014 drama film written and directed by Abel Ferrara about the final days of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.[1][2] It was also screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]

Plot

Pier Paolo Pasolini is fifty, and lives in the rowdy Rome of the 1970s. He has just finished shooting his latest film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, a film that has shocked both critics and audiences. Pasolini is increasingly opposed by the people, critics and politicians, both for his homosexuality, and because he is considered impulsive and scandalous in showing his reality to the public. Pasolini is going to shoot a new film (which was never made), in which he cast the famous actor Eduardo De Filippo and the young Ninetto Davoli (with whom he has a special relationship). While Pasolini is working on the film, his mother and his sister try to dissuade him from the project, because it turns out to be too wild and visionary for the Italian public.

Pasolini continues with his work, missing many interviews with journalists. One day he falls in love with a boy from the suburbs of Rome, Pino Pelosi, and takes him to a restaurant in the seaside village of Ostia. Pasolini wants to be with him in a loving relationship, but the boy gets mad at him, attacking him and some other companions. Pasolini is later beaten up before dying by being run over with his own car by a man. In the days following, the press says Pasolini's murder was politically motivated by the police and those whom the poet had always loved and immortalized in his works.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "International competition of feature films". Venice. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Venice Film Festival Lineup Announced". Deadline. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Toronto Film Festival Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 22 July 2014.

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