Salo, or the 120 Daysof Sodom

Salo, or the 120 Daysof Sodom
by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Actor: Aldo Valletti, Giorgio Cataldi, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Bonacelli, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection

Movie Reviews of Salo, or the 120 Daysof Sodom

Movie Review: Film as art not as entertainment
Summary: 5 Stars

Before I purchased this film I read the reviews because they were quite polarized and getting grossed out or gratuitous violence isn't a pleasure for me. Since I am sure there are other film lovers similar to myself that may pass on this, I have taken the time to write this and give this film a top rating.
Personally, I considered it a work of art, meaning that it reflected and forecasted where society was going (the film was made in 1975) and indeed where we are at today. What I didn't know until I viewed the supplemental material was that Pasolini was a man of letters and then moved to film. I also didn't know that this was his last film and he was assassinated because of it.
This film could not be made today because we have become politically correct and in the pursuit of the end of offending no one we have used a means of economic and social exiling to silence the voice of the mass media artist.
Last comment is that I didn't realize there was a dubbed english soundtract. Who reads the back of the slipcover?

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Summary of Salo, or the 120 Daysof Sodom

Pier Paolo Pasolini s notorious final film, Sal?, 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 Sal?, a 40-minute documentary about the film s final scene
Sal?: 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 Sal?, 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

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