Product Description: Pier Paolo Pasolini s notorious final film, 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 18th-century opus of torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist Italy 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.
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES: New, restored high-definition digital transfer The End of Salò, a 40-minute documentary about the film s final scene Salò: Yesterday and Today, a 35-minute documentary featuring interviews with Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini s friend Nineto Davoli Fade to Black, a new short documentary about Salò, featuring interviews with filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, and John Maybury New interviews with set designer Dante Ferretti and filmmaker/film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin Optional English-dubbed soundtrack Theatrical trailer Optional English subtitles PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Neil Bartlett, Roberto Chiesi, Naomi Greene, Gary Indiana, and Sam Rohdie, and excerpts from Gideon Bachman s on-set diary
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - An Exercise in Endurance
If Pasolini made this film in order to disturb people, he certainly was successful. Salò is disturbing, but not necessarily shocking. It is certainly anti-erotic in the extreme for it is almost exclusively about power, and [...]. The four Fascist hosts (the duke, the president, the magistrate and the bishop) are so disgusting, but almost tedious in their perversions. I was more disturbed by the grotesque madams who share their lewd stories with a piano accompaniment.
Pasolini clearly had issues with sexuality as he seems portrays homosexuality as rape and child sexual abuse, ... Read More
Rating: - No more $1000 copies on Ebay since it's now back in print in a brand new special edition from Criterion!!!
No more megabuck copieson Ebay now since it's nowe reissued in a brand new 2 DVD set from Criterion!!! Yes,very shocking movie,much more than most horror films!!! NOT FOR THE KIDDIES OR PEOPLE w/ WEAK STOMACHS!!! The transfer of the film is superb,and the extras are first rate!!!
Rating: - Heinous and evil...a sure candidate for sickest film ever.
I'm really tired of some people trying to defend this film as some sort of demented artistic statement about political dominance and moral depravity. There's nothing artistic about this at all. What this is is a film by an obviously mentally disturbed director (Pier Pasolini) who wanted to take out his inner anger about being oppressed for being homosexual, and he wanted to take it out on the general public at large. What can possibly be artistic about a film which shows a table full of adults and children eating human feces, vivid scalpings, genital burnings, continuous sodomy, organ mutilations, ... Read More
Rating: - Absolute Darkness
"Salo or 120 Days of Sodom" (1975) by Pier Paolo Pasolini is the film the completely lives up to its reputation of one of or even THE most disturbing, depressing, cruel, and unwatchable ever made. I had to fast forward some of the scenes and turned from the screen during the others. It is not surprising because Pasolini had adapted to the screen the most notorious and IMO unreadable novel by Marquise De Sade and updated it from 18th Century France to 1944 Fascist's Italy to so called Republic of Salo where Mussolini had his last residence. I could not finish the novel. I stopped after 40 pages or so because ... Read More
Rating: - Side of humanity one does not want to see
This surely is the masterpiece in a sense that I have not seen any work of art in the past like this one. It does not mean that it is pretty, or socially acceptable, or humane - on the contrary, film shows the sides of humanity one would rather choose to ignore or not know about altogether. We see four middle aged men along with the four middle aged women arrange for the time and place to exlore limits of human sexuality in the secluded italian castle. Considering troubling context of the movie, director places these events and its unfortunate protagonists in 1944-1945 period. It is end of the World War ... Read More
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