Showing posts with label Pier Paolo Pasolini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pier Paolo Pasolini. Show all posts

26.12.25

arabian nights (1974)

AKA The Flower of 1001 Nights. Il fiore delle mille e una notte.
"Oh My!"
Set in ancient Arabia, the main story follows Nur Ed Din (Franco Merli) as he tries to find the beautiful slave girl Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini).
Filmed on location and featuring many local actors this is an episodic and sexually explicit retelling of a handful of Oriental tales.

26.5.14

salò, or the 120 days of sodom (1975)

"All's good if it's excessive."
Sixteen perfect boys and girls are rounded up by a group of fascist's, in Mussolini's Republic of Salò. They are taken to a mansion and brutally subjected to four months of physical, mental and sexual torture, for the pleasure of three degenerate leaders and a bishop.
Pasolini uses Dante and the Marquis De Sade to explore the human condition, its ability to inflict pain and suffering, and the debasement that is fascism, through the medium of exploitation cinema.