Feb – Mar 2022 Film Calendar

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Sat, Mar 12 | 7:30pm | TMT

Pasolini’s infamous final film transposes the Marquis de Sade’s 18th-century treatise on torture to Mussolini’s Italy circa 1944. A group of representatives of the wealthy upper classes—a Duke, a Bishop, a Magistrate, and naturally, the President—have holed them- selves up in a palatial estate in the titular city of Salò where they have imprisoned a horde of young men and women to torment for their pleasure. Making disturbingly literal the way the rich exploit the poor, Salò descends into the abyss until not a fleck of light remains.

DIRECTOR: Pier Paolo Pasolini.

CAST: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto P. Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti. 1975. 116 min. Italy/France. Color. Italian. 35mm.

Print from Cinecittà.

Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

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