Pasolini

Pasolini

2014 · 87 min · IT · 5.7 (200 votes)
Dir. Abel Ferrara · Starring Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Mastandrea, Roberto Zibetti, Andrea Bosca

A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.

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We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art (represented by scenes from his films, his novel-in-progress Petrolio, and his projected film Porno-Teo-Kolossal) are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.

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A deeply personal and fragmented portrait of a controversial artist's final hours. It's a contemplative, often unsettling, exploration of life, art, and the search for meaning on the brink of death.

introspectivemelancholicprovocativecontemplativeslow-burnarthousebiographical dramaexperimentalEuropean cinemaart and lifemortalitysexualitylegacy
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