Cast out the rich and powerful liars, opportunists and all varieties of swine in the world to be eaten and ultimately prove useful as nothing more than nutrition for the genuine and righteous. Pasolini takes us into an industrial hog farm with all of its daily filth and ugliness,... Read More »
Crickets and marching bands launch Pier Paolo Pasolini's version of Sophocles' classic tragedy as we are taken to a Victorian re-imagining of Thebes and bear witness to the birth of Oedipus Rex, a pitiable infant destined to return to the passage from whence he emerged in a film ... Read More »
In the final film of his “Trilogy of Life” series, Arabian Nights, Pier Paolo Pasolini creates a masterful epic that achieves the cinematic grandiosity of Giovanni Pastrone’s 1914 Cabiria with larger than life locales filled with intricate details while simultaneously grounding t... Read More »
In 1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini, an intellectual by many rights, decided to take a camera to the streets of Italy to question how Italian citizens respond to sexuality. In conclusion, he states that much of what was spoken—that is, freely given—came with disarming superficiality or ... Read More »
The Canterbury Tales (1972) Cast: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Country: Italy | France Genre: Drama | Comedy Official Site: Here Editor’s Notes: The following review is part of our coverage for TIFF’s Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poet of Co... Read More »
Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Hawks and the Sparrows (or the whimsically alliterative Italian title, Uccellacci e uccelini) is a philosophical road movie that encapsulates the political beliefs of the director with absurd social satire and symbolism that announces itself so as not to... Read More »
Based on a series of 14th century novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, Pasolini’s The Decameron (1971) adapts nine stories for the screen. Highly comedic throughout, The Decameron is as much a farce on the naiveté of medieval times and church rule as it is a dramatic illustration of m... Read More »
Pasolini’s screen adaptation of the famous Euripides play, Medea, illustrates profoundly the strange, the mystical, and the unknown. Through an ascetic visual design, sparse editing, and meticulous framing, Pasolini’s Medea sews together the mystical and the realistical, a notion... Read More »
There is something so sublime about subversion. It takes you away from the monotony of the ordinary and forces you to view reality (or whatever you would like to call it) from a different perspective. It forces you to think, to underthink, and to overthink. And it turns absurdity... Read More »
In Pier Paolo Pasolini's debut feature, Accattone, Pasolini quickly establishes a defining cinematic language that would make saints of sinners and deities from the scourge of the streets. These were the ignoble byproducts of a post-war rebuilding in Italy as a shifting of the fr... Read More »
