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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0715515031028
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Criterion Collection
Languages: EnglishSubtitledItalianOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
MPN: 1764
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Running Time: 116 minutes
Studio: Criterion Collection
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
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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
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Many reviewers are basing their opinions on Pasolini's reputation and just assuming that because Pasolini made a number of masterpieces that this too must somehow merit our attention.
After having viewed several of Pasolini's other films I have to say that this is his weakest. The film's reputation (or notoriety) has little to do with the actual substance of the film. If the film is critiqued according to the normal criteria of film criticism it would have to be judged a failure for it simply fails to engage the viewer. The most glaring reason for this and the most glaring weakness of the film is its complete lack of three-dimensional characters. In fact there is no characterization at all. In the place of characters we have "authority figures" and "captives". But since there is very little that differentiates one character from the next there is no way to judge the psychological effects of this social experiment. The most that can be said for the film is that it is gorgeously ... Read More
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Criterion Collection: Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom [1975] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
This DVD was available virtually to all who wished to see it in the 1970's. I watched some of it when i was a child in care. I think that this was due to the fact that fascism was never confined to the peoples of Germany and their allies but to all peoples who think they are superior to others in all sections of the world's communities. Academics are amongst the new faces of fascism especially child psychology and psychiatry and pharmacology but if you think carefully you see that this has always been the case. Hitler's final solution for inferior people was in fact more to do with the thinking of, then as it is today, "PSYCHIATRY".
There is one comment entered previously to this that refers to the victims as being young adults, they may be adult actors and extras but I see that the victims are supposed to be seen as children. Of this I am sure many of you would agree. Having being ... Read More
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I'll make this short. Salo has got to be one of the sickest and most disturbing films ever made, I don't think there ever will be a film made like this. This film was out of print for a while and some rare copies were available on e-bay for around $600, so was it really worth that much? I don't think so unless you're insane or extremely rich. I happened to find a bootleg dvdr copy that was really cheap and when I first watched this I honestly felt sick like I was about to throw up. Criterion has finally re-released this extremely controversial film (copies of this film were seized by the police in the U.K.) and added a ton of special features for those who are brave enough to watch this ha ha!. Salo is definitely not the type of film that you just end up watching for your own enjoyment, it's depressing, shocking and will crawl under your skin for a while. Try not to think of Pasolini's film as a shock-for-shock's sake project and you'll truly understand the horror that is Salo. While the depiction ... Read More
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I first heard about this film in college, during a sociology of film course. My professor lauded this film as being a work of genius. As a lover of political cinema, my curiosity grew and I tried to get a copy, but at over $1,000 dollars, my dreams of seeing this political masterpiece seemed bleak at best.
For years, I scoured the internet with no success. Salo had become my holy grail. So you can imagine how excited I was when this was finally re-released.
Anyone who has read my other reviews knows that I usually go into at least a little detail. However, for the sake of good taste, I wont. All I will say is that after seeing this film, I was left feeling repulsed, empty, and sick. The images were so graphic that I could not eat breakfast the next day. I was so disgusted, I returned the movie.
I can see what Pasolini was trying to accomplish, however, the film seemed more like a childish mockery of fascism rather than a well thought out critique. ... Read More
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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, a power trip in which decadent authoritarians play out their filthy fantasies with captive young boys as their play things. It seems to buy into the hystrical notion that homosexuality is equal to cross-dressers who revel in the most obscene sex acts and [...].
I'm not sure why I even wanted to watch this film. It's another film I found on a "most controversial movies" list and decided I had to ... Read More
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