Tag: Abel Ferrara

Pier Paolo Pasolini, film, Italy
Film

The Ongoing Reconsideration of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Champion of the disinherited of postwar Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s masterworks prefigured his country’s fall to a consumerist Heart of Darkness, an uncompromising vision that may have led to his own wretched death. A biopic by Abel Ferrara that premiered at the Venice biennale reconstructed the last hours of the Italian film director, who was murdered in 1975.