Pier Paolo Pasolini Collection, Vol. 1 (Oedipus Rex / Porcile / Love Meetings)
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Actor: Pasolini 3pacDirector: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Brand: Water Bearer Films
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Italian (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 299 minutes
Published: 2003-07-01
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Water Bearer Films, Inc
Movie Reviews of Pier Paolo Pasolini Collection, Vol. 1 (Oedipus Rex / Porcile / Love Meetings)
Movie Review: Three intriguing Pasolini films
Summary: 5 Stars
This three-film box set provides a very good introduction to Pasolini. It includes the rare early documentary LOVE MEETINGS (1964); one of his best and most representative films, OEDIPUS REX (1967); and the deeply strange but unforgettable PORCILE (1969). Although I have written about these DVDs individually elsewhere at Amazon.com, let me briefly introduce them here. LOVE MEETINGS (COMIZI D'AMORE, literally "debates about love") is Pasolini's cinema verite investigation of sexual attitudes among a broad spectrum of Italians, from liberal students to soccer stars to traditional villagers, from all parts of the country. It also provides a fascinating, albeit indirect, portrait of Pasolini himself, as this extraordinary filmmaker, poet, novelist, and theoretician reveals much about his own attitudes towards sex and the Italian people. OEDIPUS REX is his opulent and riveting adaptation of the ancient myth; simultaneously, it is a provocative reflection of the filmmaker himself (Pasolini sets the prologue in Fascist Italy, depicting his own father and mother as Oedipus' parents). PORCILE (aka PIGSTY), filmed with serene beauty and underlying horror, is one of Pasolini's most hauntingly original works. It interweaves two seemingly disconnected tales, that of a young man forced into a life of cannibalism in a dreamlike medieval Wasteland, and that of the enigmatic son of an ex-Nazi industrialist in modern Germany. Both men become sacrificial victims of their different societies. Each of the three discs includes the same excellent half-hour 1970 documentary on Pasolini, but no other features. The Pasolini Foundation in Rome, which controls the rights to all three films, insisted that the U.S. distributor release the DVDs without any chapters (i.e., each is in one continuous track), to encourage people to watch each picture in its entirety. Still, it is a privilege to have these three extraordinary films on DVD, and I look forward to the Pasolini Collection, Volume 2.
Summary of Pier Paolo Pasolini Collection, Vol. 1 (Oedipus Rex / Porcile / Love Meetings)
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