As a proud southern man, I am upset to say that I'm not surprised to find that a bunch of ignorant rednecks may have been responsible for this gay man's murder (They said it was because he was a "dirty communist", but you know that they were killing two birds with one car), although I am pretty surprised to find that the kind of rednecks who would do that were still sophisticated enough to visit Italy and know who the "artistic" Pasolini is. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom and commonly referred to as simply Salò, is a 1975 period horror art film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. They rule that when they get to the mansion their daughters must be completely naked at all times. Signora Vaccari uses a mannequin to demonstrate to the young men and women how to properly masturbate a penis and one of the girls tries to escape, only to have her throat cut. Then, there, too, he came the assistant director and if it is embraced. She is forced to marry Sergio before being raped by the Duke. Not much goes on in this in underdeveloped, overtly disturbing and often unsubtle study on people of high power subjecting the innocent to degradation and torture, and in that sense, there are great natural shortcomings, but in truth, through all of the grime and pseudo-pornography is a study on the depravity and corruptibility of, not simply the powerful, but humanity itself that is important, and presented through a narrative that can at least be acknowledged for its sheer uniqueness. [32] Another final scene, discovered years later and which was only in the initial draft of the script, showed, after the torture's end, the four gentlemen walk out of the house and drawing conclusions about the morality of the whole affair. He was led there by Pelosi, the accused, and fell victim to an ambush, where he died. Faridah Malik – Fatimah; a common victim of both the Duke's sexism and the Magistrate's bullying. They select four men to be guards and four more as studs based on the size of their penis. Fastidiously attuned to the denial of the comforting release of either eroticism or expulsion, Pasolini's boudoirs of perversion lack De Sade's scarlet hedonism. Writes down several victims' names for punishment. The Bishop then leaves to examine the captives in their rooms, where they start systematically betraying each other: Claudio reveals that Graziella is hiding a photograph, Graziella reveals that Eva and Antiniska are having a secret sexual affair and Ezio, a collaborator, and a black servant girl are shot dead after being found having sex, but not before Ezio makes a defiant Socialist salute. The town on the Reno replaces the fictional location in Marzabotto. In contrast to his "Trilogy of Life" (Il Decameron, I racconti di Canterbury and Il fiore delle Mille e una notte), Pasolini initially planned The 120 days of Sodom and Salò as separate stories, but noting similarity between both concepts and based on their experiences in the Republic of Salò conceived the idea of Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom. [11] Salò is a toponymical metonymy for the Italian Social Republic (RSI) (because Mussolini ruled from this northern town rather than from Rome), which was a puppet state of Nazi Germany. [10], While collaborating with Citti on the script, Pasolini was compelled to transpose the setting of Salò from 18th-century France (as depicted in de Sade's original book) to the last days of Benito Mussolini's regime in the Republic of Salò in the spring of 1944. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1785 book (first published in 1904) The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade, set during World War II, and was Pasolini's final film, being released three weeks after his murder. Well, jeez, do you think that fascism is bad, Pier Paolo Pasolini? Graziella Aniceto – Graziella finds her time at the Palace unbearable and is calmed by Dorit and Eva, the latter of which she betrays. Described as both pornographic and erotic, it was written in 1785. Maurizio Valaguzza as Bruno, The Collaborator; teenager cruel like Claudio who befriends him. [citation needed] As a continuation, Pasolini planned to make a biographical film about the life of child murderer Gilles de Rais, but after his death, the idea was aborted. Since they state that the sen… Umberto Paolo Quintavalle. Quite the opposite, his boners reveal only the presence of spiritual rigor mortis. The film remains banned in several countries and sparked numerous debates among critics and censors about whether or not it constituted pornography due to its nudity and graphic depiction of sex acts. [15], In the film, almost no background is given on the tortured subjects and, for the most part, they almost never speak. Many of the acts depicted on screen are absolutely horrible to watch. FREE Shipping on orders over $25 shipped by Amazon. [73], The Nikos Nikolaidis film The Zero Years (2005) has been compared to Salò. The acts of torture in the courtyard caused some of the actors to suffer abrasions and burns. Because it depicts youths subjected to graphic violence, torture, sexual abuse, and murder, the film was controversial upon its release and has remained banned in several countries into the 21st century. Signora Maggi relates her troubled childhood and her coprophilia. During this, the Magistrate engages with the Duke in three-way intercourse. [12] While writing the script, it was decided between Citti and Pasolini that the latter would direct the project, as Citti had planned to write a separate project after completing Salò. During the many days at the palace, the four men devise increasingly abhorrent tortures and humiliations for their own pleasure. Susanna Radaelli – President's daughter married with the Duke. Commits suicide during the final day. The confluence of thematic content in the film—ranging from the political and socio-historical, to psychological and sexual—has led to much critical discussion. Then under force they hold captive nine teenage boys and girls and tell them that they are now their slaves and they will be forced to do unspeakable sexual acts with their captors. | Rating: 3/5 | Rotten (11). | Fresh (27) [35] The approval, however, was withdrawn three weeks after the film's Italian release in January 1976 and it was formally banned. The interiors were shot in Villa Sorra near Castelfranco Emilia. During this, she begs God for death and the Duke punishes her by defecating on the floor and forcing her to eat his feces with a spoon. It’s also a masterpiece. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. Pelosi then claimed that three Sicilian men had killed Pasolini after insulting him and calling him a "dirty Communist." Becomes drunk with the power over others as a collaborator and start to act like the other fascists (for example aiming at his former victim friends and saying "ue, culattoni!" Most of the actors of the cast, although they were natural actors, many of them were models that did not have modesty to show their naked bodies and most of them retaining their original name. (It's more picture-mirror than mere picture in these cases.). [68], Salò has earned a reputation among some film scholars for being the "sickest film of all time",[69][70] with some citing it as an early progenitor of the extreme cinema subgenre, alongside the American film The Last House on the Left (1972).[71]. They are then taken outside and raped, tortured and murdered through methods such as branding, hanging, scalping, burning and having their tongues and eyes cut out, as each libertine takes his turn to watch as a voyeur. Other non-original music was Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in Veris leta facies at the nearly end of the film during Circle of Blood. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! These disturbances are at least frustrating in their factoring into subtlety issues, because as a portrait on the corruptibility of men of power and their questionable leading systems, this brutal affair has a tendency to beat you over the head with its themes, through all of the disturbances, as well as some abrasive set pieces. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Later, the other victims are presented with a meal of human feces. to them). Victim of the collaborationists and the Magistrate. [citation needed], Umberto Paolo Quintavalle (the Magistrate) was a writer, he knew Pasolini working on the newspaper Corriere della Sera. . 60. [75], An exhibition of photographs by Fabian Cevallos depicting scenes which were edited out of the film was displayed in 2005 in Rome. Coming Soon, Regal In 2010, the film was submitted again and passed with an R18+ rating. The wedding ceremony ensues with each man of power exchanging rings with a stud. Rinaldo Missaglia as Stud; like the Duke is strongly built. They then kidnap many youths, of which nine young men and nine young women were hand-picked and brought to a palace near Marzabotto. 21 Dec, 2020 Dominique’s review published on Letterboxd: I also watched this during my "I want to watch disturbing sh*t" era. Efisio Etzi as Stud; most cruel and degenerate. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. In 2000, in an uncut form, the film was finally passed for theatrical and video distribution in the United Kingdom. $60.00 +$3.00 shipping. It s also a masterpiece. Pier Paolo Pasolini Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic... It’s also a … "[4], In 2006, the Chicago Film Critics Association named it the 65th-scariest film ever made. Get it as soon as Wed, Jun 10. 4.0 out of 5 stars based on 2 product ratings. [33] Finally, keeping the idea of dance as the summation of carnage, Pasolini chose to mount the so-called final "Margherita", with the two young soldiers dancing. The story is in four segments, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy: the Anteinferno, the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Excrement, and the Circle of Blood. |, August 25, 2008 Bruno Musso – Carlo Porro; an outspoken boy who shows a foul mouth even to the Masters. Another day, the victims are forced to get naked and act like dogs. Ratings and Reviews. Pier Paolo Pasolini's body was found by the Italian police on November 2, 1975. Showing all 35 items Jump to: Certification; Sex & Nudity (9) Violence & Gore (14) Profanity (3) Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (1) Frightening & Intense Scenes (6) Spoilers (2) Certification. Saló still holds up to this day as one of the most sodomising films to ever brace our screens, and rightly gained its controversial status in the cinema industry. Umberto Chessari – First a victim but later recruited off-screen as a collaborator, and replaces Ezio after he is shot. The prize was suggested that it should be immediate death for the winner. Premiering at the Paris Film Festival on 23 November 1975, the film had a brief theatrical run in Italy before being banned in January 1976, and was released in the United States the following year on 3 October 1977. Screening this film in a cinema without the additional material would constitute a breach of classification laws. 3.5 out of 5 stars 841. The value of this drama is betrayed by subtlety issues, and it's already limited by natural shortcomings to this merely minimalist narrative about poor, trapped souls enduring the unspeakable whose limited dynamicity takes a lot of meat out of a drama that tries so hard to sink its teeth into you. [6] It is also the subject of an entry in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986). Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. [34] In Italy, the film was initially rejected for screening by the Italian censorship, but received approval on 23 December 1975. |, April 25, 2016 This page was last edited on 21 December 2020, at 15:53. No scene of a sex act has been confirmed in the film until one of the libertines has approached its participants and sodomized the figure committing the act. Salò offers a lesson in how to depict cruelty without re-enacting it -- a lesson few filmmakers even want to learn. [19], Salò has been banned in several countries, because of its graphic portrayals of rape, torture and murder—mainly of people thought to be younger than eighteen years of age. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. [38], Pasolini on the film's depiction of sex, 1975. Coming Soon. It's certainly the film in which Pasolini's protest against the modern world finds its most extreme and anguished expression. They recruit four teenage boys to act as guards (dressed with uniforms of Decima Flottiglia MAS) and four young soldiers (called "studs", "cockmongers", or "fuckers"), who are chosen because of their large penises. Initially, Ninetto Davoli was chosen to play Claudio, a young collaborationist, but due to legal problems he had to decline, the role being replaced by Claudio Troccoli, a young man who had a similarity to Davoli in his first films. In 1997, special permission was granted for the film to be screened uncut at a film festival. During a search for the victim with the most beautiful buttocks, Franco is picked and promised death in the future. Just confirm how you got your ticket. [7], The film is separated into four segments with intertitles, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy:[8]. Together with “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom,” Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke named this movie as one of the only two examples of adequately presented sexuality in the movies. Pasolini established that the violent scenes in Salò were symbolic and reduced the romanticism of his previous films, although knowing that once the film was premiered would be considered as damned. In 2001, the DVD was finally passed uncut with an 'R18' rating. Like the Pianist is secretly very distressed at the actions around him. Like the other daughters is required to be completely naked for all 120 days. An essential viewing for any prospective filmmaker. . It's pretty telling that death is a release from the living hell they are facing. The Pianist, looking out an open window, suddenly realises with horror what atrocities are being committed, and climbing out, throws herself to her death. It's a very tough film to watch and through it all it's not that great a film only because there is absolutely no character in the film that you can identify with. Write a review. When to reward the link the gun to his head, he had a rebellious snap, could not withstand that gesture. | Rating: 4/4 In the end, he is killed by having his left eye gouged out. Likes to torture and mock-execute people. Very few characters are given names and through it all, you just want their suffering to end, but it never ends and it just gets worse and worse. The Pianist and Signora Vaccari tell jokes to make the victims laugh. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Italian: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma), titled Pasolini's 120 Days of Sodom on English-language prints[3] and commonly referred to as simply Salò (Italian: [saˈlɔ]), is a 1975 period art house film [a] directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. 34 nº 2 in La minor. "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom" is a beautiful film, very well directed and acted with very grotesque, ugly, shameful acts of power exerted over teenage boys and girls being held captive in a palace in the capital of Salo in the Italian Socialist Republic, or simply called the Republic of Salo in the film. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975 ★★½ . Edit. Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma. It's two hours of teenagers being treated like they're less than human. Review by Dominique Pro. The film is a loose adaptation of the book The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade, set during World War II, and was Pasolini's final … There may not be too much to this story, but it is original, and often genuine compelling, despite expository shortcomings, thanks to bona fide highlights in dramatic scripting by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Citti which molds some effective, if somewhat dehumanized characters, and is somewhat respectably unafraid to get disturbing. "[59], The film's reputation for pushing boundaries has led some critics to criticize or avoid it; the Time Out film guide, for example, deemed the film a "thoroughly objectionable piece of work," adding that it "offers no insights whatsoever into power, politics, history or sexuality. [53], Director Michael Haneke named the film his fourth-favorite film when he voted for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll; director Catherine Breillat and critic Joel David also voted for the film. The score, though, is elegantly conducted by Ennio Moriconne. Pasolini tried to get the film back by flying to Stockholm. Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service. | Rating: 5/5 The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini (Mamma Roma), Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . No moment of resonance in this drama digs especially deep, but the fact of the matter is that there are some truly effective moments in this unnerving art drama, which could have been completely too grimy to be aesthetically effective, but has its moments of true impact. Is forced to remain completely naked at all times just like the other daughters. Sign up here. During breakfast, the daughters enter the dining hall naked to serve food. |, August 6, 2019 The Duke orders the guards and studs to undress her. It’s also a masterpiece. Raped by one of the studs and killed in the end; in a lost or deleted scene in an electric chair. DVD $22.99 $ 22. More Buying Choices $18.49 (8 used & new offers) Multi-Format Blu-ray $29.60 $ 29. Salo... is forceful only in making the viewer want to turn away. 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