Pasolini

Author

Abel Ferrara

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (CEN, WSQ)

Languages

In English amd Italian, with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned.

Performers

Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Mastandrea, Adriana Asti, Giada Colagrande, Maria de Medeiros.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2019]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (84 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In Pasolini, renegade filmmaker Abel Ferrara explores the final days of another rebellious artist, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Willem Dafoe gives an incandescent performance as the subversive Italian poet and film director, chronicling his final hours on November 2, 1975 in Rome. The film follows him as he works on his controversial classic Silò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, and leads up to his brutal murder on the beach in Ostia on the outskirts of the city. Facing resistance and persecution from the public, politicians, censors and critics, Pasolini seeks comfort from his beloved mother and friends, including actress Laura Betti and continues his work on an ambitious new novel and screenplay. Further distractions are provided by the young men of Rome, whom he cruises past in his Alfa Romeo. Shooting in the locations where he lived and worked, Pasolini is a beautiful evocation of the life and death of a profoundly influential artist.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on an idea by Abel Ferrara and Nicola Tranquillino.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.

Bonus features: Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe in conversation ; behind-the-scenes documentary ; theatrical trailer.