The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
Movie Review
Truly a masterwork of controversy, Salo holds something of a distinction for me personally as a filmmaker, writer and critic who at the time I first saw it in 1998 was full of dozens of exploitation works, extreme Japanese horror films, underground movies from the 70's and "No Wave" cinema from the 80's and 90's that featured all manners of explicit violence and sexual content. Salo holds the notorious honor of being the first film that made me physically ill as I viewed it. ...Read More
