The polymathic Italian writer, actor, and director PierPaoloPasolini, however, made masterpieces in both idioms ... In Pasolini’s take on the gospel, narrative devices that heighten emotion, such as suspense, are unavailable.
PierPaoloPasolini’s notorious film is now 50 years old, and its cavalcade of shocking cruelty and violence still leaves a stark impact on its viewers. Film-makers explain why Pasolini ‘was a saint to us’.
PierPaoloPasolini was murdered at around midnight on 2 November 1975 ... “Assassinato Pasolini,” the next morning’s papers announced, alongside photographs of the 17-year-old accused of his murder ... Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1961.
With mystery still surrounding PierPaoloPasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times. Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered at around midnight on 2 November 1975.
On 2 November 1975 the Italian writer and filmmaker PierPaoloPasolini was found murdered in slumlands outside Rome... All his life Pasolini had excoriated the Italian bourgeoisie ... There, on a filthy blackened beach, Pasolini will meet his end.