
A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.... (Full plot summary below)
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A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
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| Slant MagazineJake ColeWorking in the most white elephantine of genres, Ferrara has produced one of its few termitic entries. |
| The PlaylistJessica KiangIn trying to spell out what was going on his Pasolini's mind, he does his idol's talents a disservice. Ferrara tells us so much more about Pasolini -the filmmaker, the artist, the public figure- when he leaves it to us to imagine what the man thought. |
| Electric SheepJames B EvansMy regretful feeling about this new effort was that - however sincere, unsentimental and heartfelt - Abel Ferrara was not really the director to make a film version of the phenomenon that was Pier Paolo Pasolini. |
| Observer (UK)Mark KermodeThe heady cocktail of politics, religion, blowjobs and murder is catnip for Ferrara, although anyone not versed in the controversies of Salò may leave the film none the wiser. |
| Sight and SoundAdrian MartinDespite Ferrara's insistence that he and his key crew are devout students of Pasolini's cinema, he applies the lessons of this apprenticeship freely, without mimicry. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinYou come in expecting portraiture, but Ferrara gives you Cubist still life. |
| The ListEddie HarrisonEnergised by a magnetic performance by Dafoe, Ferrara's film is no normal biopic, benefiting considerably from being as unconventional and intellectually rigorous as the man it portrays. |
| GuardianXan BrooksIt's profane and it's precious and it glows like the moon. |
| FlavorwireJudy BermanPasolini may not be the film we were promised, but it turns out to be something better: a thought-provoking - if not quite masterful - cinematic portrait of an artist whose visionary oeuvre remains poorly understood. |
| sbs.com.auPeter GalvinChief amongst the films principal virtues is Willem Dafoe who plays Pasolini with the quiet dignity of an aristocrat straight out of some lost Visconti epic. |