Film

Pasolini

Name: Pasolini
Director: Abel Ferrara
Released: 2014
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio, Maria de Medeiros, Adriana Asti

2014 · 87 min · ★ 5.7 · Dir. Abel Ferrara

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

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.