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Salo
Blu-ray £21.99 RRP £24.99 You save £3.00 (12%)
Film Description Pasolini’s controversial film, widely regarded to be one of the most disturbing ever made, is based on the book The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. Pasolini transposes the setting of De Sade's book from 18th century France to the last days of Mussolini's regime in the Republic of Salò. Whether you see Salo as an exquisitely made chamber piece denouncing the horrors and indulgences of fascism and human corruption, or as an emetic example of calculated obscenity, it has retained its power to shock, disgust and provoke. It remains banned in many countries to this day.
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DVD Extras 2 discs; Many extras.
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Review by Wolfram Parge on 11th March 2003 Loosely adapted from the Marquis De Sade's novel, "The 120 Days Of Sodom", Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film is a painful and tortured journey into the mind of a man disillusioned with his own beliefs. People, politics and life are under attack in Salo's relentless onslaught on the physical senses of the viewer. Set in the Fascist republic of Salo during World War II, four aristocratic gentlemen take a group of young men and women to an isolated villa for an unprecedented fest of torture and violence. No emotions are spared as the uncompromising terror of sexual brutality unfolds, engulfing its audience in the stench of human cruelty. By turns lyrical and poetic, Salo is an extraordionary vision of the terrifying extremes human beings are capable of. View more reviews by Wolfram Parge
Review by anonymous on An important film and a fascinating, unexpected finale to Pasolini's career - the director was himself murdered in the year of the film's original release. "Certain works yank the rug from under the meticulously planted furniture of middle-class morality and the aesthetic torpor that decorates it...Salo is the very model of life as most human beings have known it in the 20th century, a metaphor of feudalism as reinvented by the multinational corporation, the military coup d'etat and the mediation of all reality via the symbolic." Gary Indiana.
Article - "Pier Paolo Pasolini"
by Pasquale Iannone
The Gramscian Marxist poet, novelist and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is often described as a King Midas figure because of the skillful dexterity with which he shifted from one form of artistic expression to another. A vital, polemical presence in the cu... View article in full
Article - "Sex, Class and Censorship"
by Julian Upton
When the first novelty picture houses opened in fairgrounds at the start of the twentieth century, it didn’t take the establishment long to realise that the crude films being shown were having a powerful hold on the working classes. Consequently, the British Board of... View article in full
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