Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

In 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini turned the book into a movie, Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom). The movie is transposed from 18th century France to the last days of Mussolini's regime in the Republic of Salo

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...form more popular, or dangerous, than film. In 1993, a board of review reclassified the long-banned work Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, declaring it ''serious'' art. Several politicians argued strenuously that the work, an allegory on...

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Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom), commonly referred to as Salo, is a controversial 1975 Italian film written and directed by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini with uncredited writing contributions by Pupi...

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...in a London production of the Strauss opera that took as its inspiration Pier Paolo Pasolini's incomparably perverse film, "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. " The new "Salome" comes by way of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and was...

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...scene as captured by British documentarist Gideon Bachman. The film was released on DVD in Italy in May 2007. 1974: Arabian Nights (Il fiore delle mille e una notte) 1975: Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma)

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...films, though, are so gratuitously unpleasant that controversy has to be central to their plans. Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1975 film Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, told the sorry tale of a group of Italian wartime fascists who abduct young...

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...from 2006 and Riff Raff from 1991 as particular favourites) and also Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian film-maker who made the notorious Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom from 1975. Loach, a Bath City fan, said that Cantona "acts as he plays...

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...Surgere and Sonia Saviange. Distributor: The Criterion Collection. Street Date: 8/26/2008. Runtime: 116 min. Rating: NR. Year: 1975. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom empted as one is to simply process this film (indeed, to digest it and then...

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...answer. The back story on Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo (aka Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom) is certainly more fascinating than the film itself. A widely read and respected poet and novelist, Pasolini, in his early films, such as 1961's Accatone...

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...progress. But his films, finally, cannot really be assimilated to any ideological or aesthetic program. Certainly his last movie, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), based on a novel by the Marquis de Sade and set during the decadent...

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