HOMMAGE: PASOLINI. Meeting with Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard + Salò, or the 120 days of Sodom
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TypeGrand Hall
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Hour
HOMMAGE: PASOLINI. Five masterpiecies of Pier Paolo Pasolini | 16-22.06.2025
Notoriously controversial, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film premiered exactly twenty-one days after his tragic death on a beach in Ostia. A loose adaptation of The 120 Days of Sodom, or The School of Libertinage by Marquis de Sade, the film is divided into four parts and follows the structure of Dante’s Divine Comedy, while also incorporating motifs from the works of Nietzsche and Proust. It's the most complete manifesto – and a blasphemous work – by the radicalized artist, through which he definitively severs ties with his own past and “walks away” from the Trilogy of Life.
Fascist Italy, 1944. Salò, a northern town and the last haven and capital of the puppet state known as the Italian Social Republic (the Republic of Salò), which Mussolini established after the fall of his regime. The Duke, President, Bishop and Judge abduct local civilians/residents to stage an orgy in the remote Villa Sorra, subjecting them to numerous acts of torture and humiliation. Pasolini abandons all formalities, rejects history and entirely disregards the future. Some claim that, with this work, the director foretold his own death. The film presents extreme scenes of sadism and murder, a naturalistic portrayal of violence and sexual deviance. Never have critiques of fascism and of other totalitarianisms been so brutal, yet so vital for Pasolini to escape his own demons. After a few screenings, Salò was banned in Italy and several other countries. [Piotr Szczyszyk]
Salò, or the 120 days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975, 117'
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Language: Italian with Polish and English subtitles
ATTENTION: X-RATED FILM
Tickets: 60 PLN
