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One day, one life. Rome, November 1975. Pier Paolo Pasolini, filmmaker, poet and writer, is a symbol of the struggle against what is socially established. His writings give rise to scandals and his films are censored. Pasolini is simultaneously the object of admiration, strangeness and repudiation. On the last day of his life, the filmmaker meets his mother and, later, his closest friends. At night he decides to go out, and, at dawn, he is found brutally murdered on a beach in Ostia, allegedly by a young prostitute. A film that, in the words of Willem Dafoe, aims to "be inside Pasolini's head".
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Original Title:
Pasolini -
Country:
France, Italy, Belgium -
Year:
2014 - 74 min Subtitles PT
Director
Abel Ferrara
Born in New York in 1951, Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content of his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. He maintains a cult reputation that allows him to navigate between large-budget features and decadent B-movie-style tales. A long-time independent filmmaker, his best-known films include Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Funeral (1996) and Pasolini (2014). Abel Ferrara has been a guest of LEFFEST several times, and his work was screened in a Retrospective at LEFFEST’ 17. He returns this year to the festival to present his new film Padre Pio.
