Photograph
courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Venice
71: Film Festival – Pasolini – Abel Ferrara. Pasolini is directed by Abel
Ferrara and stars Willem Dafoe, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ninetto Davoli, Valerio
Mastandrea, Maria de Medeiros, Adriana Asti and Salvatore Ruocco. One day, one
life. Rome, the night of November 2nd 1975, the great Italian poet and
filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered. Pasolini is the symbol of an art
that’s fighting against the power. His writings are scandalous, his films are
persecuted by the censors, many people love him and many hate him. The day of
his death, Pasolini spends his last hours with his beloved mother and later on
with his dearest friends, and finally goes out into the night in his Alfa Romeo
in search of adventure in the eternal city. Dawn, Pasolini is found dead on a
beach in Ostia on the outskirts of the city. In a film dreamlike and visionary,
a blend of reality and imagination, Abel Ferrara reconstructs the last day in
the life of this great poet.
Photograph
by Roberto Rocco - courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
“In
search of the death of the last poet
only to
find the killer inside me
Sharpening
his tools of ignorance on the
memories
of never forgotten acts of
kindness
in words and deeds,
ideas
impossible to comprehend.
In a
school in Casarsa sit at my teacher’s feet
yearning
then hearing the music of the waves
that
wash the feet of the
messiah
on the beach at Idroscalo,
those
who weave their spell in silver are forever bound to the lithe body
of Giotto
constantly in search of the creation of the winning goal
forever
offside forever in the lead of the faithful of which I am one.”
Abel Ferrara, Rome 2014
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