Salo

DVD Extras

• 2 discs
• Alternative original English-language version
• Original Italian trailer Open Your Eyes – Pasolini at work on the set of Salò
• Walking with Pasolini (2008) Robert Purvis’s new documentary exploring the meaning and impact of Pasolini’s film, with Neil Bartlett, David Forgacs, Noam Chomsky and Craig Lapper (Chief Examiner, BBFC)
• Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die (1981) the classic documentary on the life and death of Pasolini
• Fade to Black (2001) – a documentary discussing the ongoing relevance and power of Pasolini’s masterpiece
• Ostia (1987) – a short film about Pasolini’s last days, starring Derek Jarman
• ‘Ostia-The Death of Pasolini.’ by Coil-the band’s 1987 track with new video accompaniment
• Feature presented with uncompressed PCM audio. Illustrated booklet containing a new introduction to Salo by Sam Rohdie, Gideon Bachmann’s on-set diaries, reviews and correspondence exploring the film’s troubled history, illustrated with stills and on-set photographs.

Film Details

Cast

Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Caterina Boratto

Technical Details

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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 dis... more >

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. < less

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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 wo... more >

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. < less

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