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Pasolini

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France, Belgium, Italy · 2014
1h 24m
Director Abel Ferrara
Starring Willem Dafoe, Giada Colagrande, Riccardo Scamarcio, Maria de Medeiros
Genre Drama, History

This biopic brings viewers close to Pasolini during the final hours of his life as he talks with his family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, and cruises in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Pasolini’s life and art are constantly refracted and intermingled with the film to the point where they become one.

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Hitfix by

Ferrara is openly inviting comparison with Pasolini’s work in this ambitious but messy and flawed piece, where reality bends and stretches and sensation rules.

50

The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney

It was a given that this meeting of two iconoclastic directors would yield something far more unfettered and instinctive than conventional bio-drama. But the result borders on incoherence, providing few startling insights for aficionados and minimal illumination for the uninitiated.

88

Slant Magazine by Jake Cole

Biopics ascribe titanic importance to a subject's every gesture, but Ferrara stresses the reality of creation, of its ordinary activities that nonetheless give an artist a sense of fulfillment.

60

CineVue by John Bleasdale

One feels its subject would have admired the boldness of its conception, if perhaps not its overly slick execution.

80

The Telegraph by Robbie Collin

Ferrara has come up with something pretty special here: a subtle, seductive, lamp-lit hymn to one artist’s talents from another in the process of rediscovering his own.

80

The Guardian by Xan Brooks

It’s a work of startling maturity from this incorrigible tearaway, a minor-key dream that finally turns towards darkness.

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