Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final work, a controversial transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s novel to Benito Mussolini’s fascist republic of 1944, may prove too strong for some, with its explicit scenes of the humiliation and torture of young men and women by a group of wealthy, sadistic libertines.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s controversial adaptation of the Marquis de Sade’s novel, relocated to Benito Mussolini’s fascist republic.
- 1975 Italy, France
- Directed by
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Produced by
- Alberto Grimaldi
- Written by
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Featuring
- Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto P. Quintavalle
- Running time
- 118 minutes
Who voted for Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Critics
- Janet Baris
- Turkey
- Eddie Bertozzi
- Italy
- Roger Clarke
- UK
- Kevin Coyne
- Ireland
- Alonso Díaz de la Vega
- Mexico
- Lalitha Gopalan
- USA
- Lindsay Hallam
- UK
- Georgia Korossi
- UK/Greece
- Simon McCallum
- UK
Directors
- Ali Abbasi
- Denmark
- Rita Azevedo Gomes
- Portugal
- Bertrand Bonello
- Fyzal Boulifa
- UK
- Abel Ferrara
- USA
- Michel Franco
- Mexico
- Gaspar Noé
- France
- Rastko Novakovic
- UK
- Marta Popivoda
- Serbia
- Bing Wang
- China
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