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Paolo Bonacelli,
Paolo Bonacelli,
Giorgio Cataldi,
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Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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: Not Rated
: Criterion
: Drama, Foreign, Politics and Social Issues, Italy, Criterion Collection
: Italian
: English
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The final work of notorious Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, this film updates the Marquis de Sade's most extreme novel to fascist Italy in the final days of WW II. Dispensing with the novel's meditations on sexual liberation and the search for truth, Pasolini presents four decadents who kidnap dozens of young men and women and subject them to the most hideous forms of torture and perversion in an isolated villa. Rape, murder, and a coprophagic banquet are only the beginning of the atrocities on display. Photographed by Tonino Delli Colli, the film also features a lavish score by Ennio Morricone. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
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| Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Criterion Collection) (Bonus Disc) (1975) |
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| A work beyond criticism.
by kian
February 16, 2005 - 11:46 PM PST
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6 out of 13 members found this review helpful
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| Hands down one of the most important and artistically successful films of all time. Salo is the strongest, most potent statement against Facism I, personally, have ever seen, in any medium. The easy intoxication of cruelty, the avenues of ultimate possibility which only wealth, power and privilege can unlock. Salo is human existence at its most base, indulgent and honest. Everyone, no matter how virtuous in image, will ultimately succumb to the satisfaction of their deepest urges and desires when granted free reign to do so. This film currently being remade right now in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and Catholic Seminaries around the world. If you can't stomach this film, you can't stomach life. |
| unwatchable
by thomasadam
August 26, 2004 - 5:54 PM PDT
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10 out of 23 members found this review helpful
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| I would give this movie no rating. It is "unwatchable" as Pasolini intended it to be. You are really in for some sick stuff if you see this film. Watching this made me question my commitment to free speech. Pasolini was so discgusted by consumer capitalism, he intended his last film to flaut the notion that a film could be a consumable commidity. He suceeded, but at what cost? I wish I knew. |
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