Salo: A Film By Pier Paolo Pasolini

by Stephen Barber

SALÃ’ (1975) Pasolini's interpretation of Sade's atrocity bible 120 Days Of Sodom, remains one of the most problematic and provocative films ever made. The story of four sexually depraved, sadistic and homicidal SS officers who systematically defile and decimate the wretched, denuded human cattle who are in their captivity, Salò is a bleak catalogue of degradation, vaginal and anal rape, sodomy, coprophilia, torture and annihilation. It remains not only Pasolini's last completed film project, he was brutally murdered shortly after its post-production, but perhaps a terminal project for the artfom the film that kills all film. INFERNOˆDEˆSADE provides an in-depth analysis and history of this controversial classic, illustrated by rarely-seen publicity photographs. This special ebook edition also includes as bonus material Pasolini's own revelatory writings on Salò.

Genres: Film

29 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 11, 2013

Reviews

[Armin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gut 30 Kindle-Seiten und sechs Bilder für 3,99 €, mein bislang schlechtestes Preisleitungsverhältnis für den amazon e-reader. Das Konzept des Films, zu dem ich nie den rechten Zugang fand, wird ganz gut erklärt, das Ganze wirkt aber eher wie eine aufgepeppte Seminararbeit.

[Kenneth Sherrill · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wanted more

I'm fascinated by Pasolini's work. In 1994, I was in Cincinnati as an expert witness in a major civil rights case. The was a front page story about a bookstore being closed and its owner arrested for selling a videotape of Sali. I was horrified. The ACLU lawyer said to me , "Welcome to Cincinnati." I bought this book expecting something longer and more detailed. It's an informative essay but I was hoping for more. I think Pasolini's movie is great.

[Chet]

Read this after watching the film for the first time at the Gene Siskel Theater in Chicago. I enjoyed Barber's anecdote about the football match between Pasolini's crew and Bertolucci's, but Pasolini's own reflections in the latter half of the text were far more interesting. What does he mean by "the theatrical satanism of self-awareness itself”?

[bernard underwood · Rating 3 out of 5]

Humm

it was ok I was hoping to understand the move not the story of the marquee view on star fishes