Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
<div><b>Book tickets for two or more of our <a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/bleak-week-cinema-of-despair">Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair</a> films in the same transaction to receive a discount!</b></div><div><br></div>Pasolini’s last film is a bleak testament. Transposing de Sade’s <i>120 Days of Sodom</i> to Mussolini’s short-lived Fascist republic of Salò in 1943, it has about it the smell of death - an ultimate, abstracted dirge for humanity in the last throes of degradation and despair. For the original’s God, Pasolini has substituted power: a quartet of sadomasochists, bastions of society, systematically humiliate, abuse and torture a group of adolescent boys and girls procured for the purpose. The metaphor emerges forcefully: that fascism, symbolised here by the total subjugation of the sexual victims, is merely the ultimate expression of a tendency latent (and to Pasolini ineradicable) in every power system which depends, as all power systems do, on the submission of the many to the few. An overwhelmingly pessimistic vision. Some viewers may find the content of this film disturbing.DramaPT1H57M182026-06-23Paolo Bonacelli
Giorgio Cataldi
Uberto Paolo Quintavalle
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Alberto Grimaldi
Alberto De Stefanis
Antonio Girasante
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom"Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom"Showtimes
June 23, 8:30 pm
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