BETWEEN POETRY AND TRANSGRESSION - THE CINEMA OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI : A COMPLETE FILM RETROSPECTIVE

BIOGRAPHY

Italian director, screen writer, essayist, poet, critic and novelist, was murdered violently in 1975. Pasolini is best known outside Italy for his films, many of which were based on literary sources – The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales. Pasolini referred himself as a ‘Catholic Marxist’ and often used shocking juxtapositions of imagery to expose the vapidity of values in modern society. His friend, the writer Alberto Moravia, considered him “the major Italian poet” of the second half of the 20th centrury.

“In neorealistic film, day-to-day...