Pasolini

Name: Pasolini
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: May 10, 2019
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Andrea Bosca, Damiano Tamilia, Francesco Siciliano, Giada Colagrande, Luca Lionello

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: May 10, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Andrea Bosca, Damiano Tamilia, Francesco Siciliano, Giada Colagrande, Luca Lionello, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio, Roberto Zibetti, Valerio Mastandrea, Willem Dafoe

Summary: A look at the final days of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (Willem Dafoe) and the confusion surrounding his death in 1975.

Director: Abel Ferrara

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 min

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A.O. Scott

May 9, 2019

The blend of pornography and humor, obnoxiousness and elegance, sweetness and cruelty reminds you that this is, above all, an Abel Ferrara movie. And the splendor of Pasolini lies in its essentially collaborative nature. Read full review

Jake Cole

Oct 20, 2015

Biopics ascribe titanic importance to a subject's every gesture, but Ferrara stresses the reality of creation, of its ordinary activities that nonetheless give an artist a sense of fulfillment. Read full review

Trevor Johnston

May 3, 2019

To be fair, the full impact probably depends on some prior Pasolini knowledge, but even those coming in fresh will appreciate a haunting portrait of an artist destroyed by the anticommunist prejudices he fought to tear down. Read full review

Robert Abele

May 30, 2019

Ultimately, Ferrara makes a convincing case for being Pasolini’s biographical caretaker, one troublemaker looking after another’s legacy, albeit with a more serious, thoughtful approach than a transgressive one. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Aug 7, 2019

Of course it helps tremendously that Willem Dafoe plays Pasolini. Just as he did with 2018’s "At Eternity’s Gate," in which he embodied the artist Vincent van Gogh, Dafoe brilliantly captures the essence and a more-than-reasonable resemblance to the real figures. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 9, 2019

It’s an intriguing, startlingly restrained and even cerebral piece of work from Ferrara, an unimpeachably serious homage, with an assured lead performance from Willem Dafoe. Read full review

Catherine Bray

Sep 14, 2014

Ferrara is openly inviting comparison with Pasolini’s work in this ambitious but messy and flawed piece, where reality bends and stretches and sensation rules. Read full review

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PeterSant

Sep 14, 2019

It's a great movie, Defoe showed a great performance, but I thought the whole set was a little empty.

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JLuis_001

Sep 16, 2021

I cannot help but feel disappointed when a director tries to approach a figure to whom he cannot do justice, and that is the case of Abel Ferrara and his attempt to shed a light on a subject as tricky as Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder.

Certainly I don't think that he has delivered a bad film,I cannot help but feel disappointed when a director tries to approach a figure to whom he cannot do justice, and that is the case of Abel Ferrara and his attempt to shed a light on a subject as tricky as Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder.

Certainly I don't think that he has delivered a bad film, but even in the face of the good acting yet bad casting choice of Willem Dafoe as the mythical director, Pasolini is more the idea of a tribute according to Ferrara, but that obviously doesn't have the strength or the potential to be something more deserving of true praise.… Expand

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