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Crew:

Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay: Maurizio Braucci
DOP: Stefano Falivene
Production: Capricci Films, Urania Pictures S.r.l., Tarantula, Dublin Films

Pasolini

A film by Abel Ferrara

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Rome, November 1975. Pier Paolo Pasolini, the internationally famous filmmaker, poet and writer is murdered. Pasolini is a symbol of the fight against social conformity. His writings cause scandal and his films are either persecuted or misunderstood. Pasolini is, simultaneously, an object of admiration, of suspicion and revulsion. On the last day of his life, the filmmaker meets his mother and some close friends. At night, he decides to go out. In the early hours of the following morning, he is found brutally murdered at a beach in the outskirts of Ostia, allegedly by Giuseppe Pelosi, a 17 year-old rent boy.
  • Cast:

    Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Mastandrea, Adriana Asti, Maria de Medeiros
  • Original Title:

    Pasolini
  • Country:

    France, Italy, Belgium
  • Year:

    2014
  • 84'

Crew:

Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay: Maurizio Braucci
DOP: Stefano Falivene
Production: Capricci Films, Urania Pictures S.r.l., Tarantula, Dublin Films

Director

Abel Ferrara

Born in New York in 1951, Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content of his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. He maintains a cult reputation that allows him to navigate between large-budget features and decadent B-movie-style tales. A long-time independent filmmaker, his best-known films include Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Funeral (1996) and Pasolini (2014). Abel Ferrara has been a guest of LEFFEST several times, and his work was screened  in a Retrospective at LEFFEST’ 17. He returns this year to the festival to present his new film Padre Pio.
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