“I am scandalous. Because I stretch a rope, or rather an umbilical cord, to connect the sacred and the profane” —Pier Paolo Pasolini

The holy and the damned. The saint and the hustler. The martyr and the pimp. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s films are populated by contradictory figures, which the visionary Italian director dreamt up in a world quivering on the cusp of...