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Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1975, 115 min

Country:  Italy

Studio:  Criterion

Cast:  Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto P. Quinavalle

Director:  Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cinematographer:  Tonino Delli Colli

Composer:  Ennio Morricone

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SKINOPSIS

Those pervy Fascists sure knew how to live! Now, we're not condoning it or anything, but what better way to use your brutal political authority than to round up all of the fresh young teens of the town and use them as your own personal cum receptacle/punching bags. There are tons of nude scenes, rape scenes, extreme torture, pissing, shit-eating (that's Renata Moar on the oh-so-tasteful DVD cover, just after eating a spoonful)... you name it, these Mussolini-lovers did it. Extremely perverted!

3 REASONS TO BUY THIS FILM

  • "Arresting, thought-provoking, ageless." - Village Voice
  • "An essential work." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
  • It's been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic...it's also a masterpiece
REVIEW
Pasolini's last film is an unbelievably bleak and depressing vision of the human condition which shocked audiences with its brutally graphic scenes of sexual degradation and oppressive violence. The director transposes the Marquis de Sade's novel about the debauching of the four pillars of 18th century French Society to World War II Italy.

A group of older Fascists (men and women) bring together a group of teenagers of both sexes and subject them to all kinds of sexual, mental and physical degradation.

In Italian with subtitles.

PRODUCT FORMAT INFORMATION
DVD Widescreen: $35.99 (Criterion Collection 2-disc set)
Availability:  In stock and ready to ship
Close Caption: No
Region Code: 1
UPC: 715515031028
Studio: Criterion
Languages: Italian Dolby Digital Mono (Primary), English Dolby Digital Mono, English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic 1.85
Features:
 
  • Digitally remastered: New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • Documentaries: The End of "Salo", a forty-minute documentary about the film's final scene; "Salo": Yesterday and Today, a thirty-five-minute documentary featuring interviews with Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini's friend Nineto Davoli
  • Interview(s): New interviews with set designer Dante Ferretti and director and film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin
  • Optional English-dubbed soundtrack; A booklet featuring new essays by Neil Bartlett, Roberto Chiesi, Naomi Greene, Gary Indiana, and Sam Rohdie, and excerpts from Gideon Bachman's on-set diary
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