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Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom

Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom

Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma

Pier Paolo Pasolini


  • Country: Italy/France
  • Year: 1975
  • Language: Italian
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  • Runtime: 116 min.

The last film of the Italian poet, novelist, linguist and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini before his murder in 1975, Salò is one of the most harrowing depictions of power and cruelty ever placed on film.

Cinematheque

screening times

    • Friday November 12
    • 10:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

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official description

The last film of the Italian poet, novelist, linguist and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini before his murder in 1975, Salò is one of the most harrowing depictions of power and cruelty ever placed on film. Transposing the Marquis de Sade's notorious novel The 120 Days of Sodom to Mussolini's pocket-sized fascist republic of Salò in 1944, the film focuses on four powerful men who retire to a luxurious chateau with sixteen young victims whom they force to participate in rituals of violence and degradation. A Dantean descent into unrestrained sadism, Pasolini's chillingly brilliant apotheosis has lost none of its power to shock even after three decades of ever more explicit exploitation films.

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