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essential figure in the history of modern Italian cinema, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) appears now as a central character in a film signed by the US Abel Ferrara -. a remarkable portrait, centered on a magnificent interpretation of Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe portraying the character of Pasolini – beyond the biographical clichés
Needless to say would never simple revisit on film the life of a fascinating personality, and also so full of contrasts, as Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). The author of such films as “The Gospel According to St. Matthew” (1964), “Decameron” (1971) or “Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom” (1975) was, after all, a creator so daring thematically and inventive in the field of languages - and, let us not forget, as a filmmaker, but also as a writer.
Addressing the figure of Pasolini, the American Abel Ferrara resists any caracterizaão trivially biographical, much less deterministic. Indeed, his “Pasolini” begins by distinguishing the time span you choose – it’s revisit only the last day of life of the filmmaker (November 2, 1975), when he was murdered on a beach Ostia, near Rome.
We are thus facing a “recall” traditional. On the one hand, the film shows us a Pasolini committed at the launch that it would be his last film (“Salò”), while maintaining an active voice in the discussion of the political situation in Italy; on the other hand, through the contamination of several elements (particularly the writing of an argument that would leave unfinished), we find a breeder reflected in the mirror of their ghosts, after discussing always way of government intervention .
For emotional vibration of the results, it is clearly essential composition of Willem Dafoe. Ferrara directs it far beyond any “illustrative” logic, asking him before the definition of a character involved in a whirlwind of desires and ideas that ultimately lead us to the discussion of own social place artist. In this perspective, in addition to its dialectical view of Pasolini, the film ̶ 0;Pasolini” may also be a suggestive gateway to his literary and cinematic universe.
published 2:42 – January 1 ’15
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