Salo (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma) (1975)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 8
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Critic Reviews: 3
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The final work of notorious Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, this film updates the Marquis de Sade's most extreme novel to fascist Italy in the final days of WW II. Dispensing with the novel's meditations on sexual liberation and the search for truth, Pasolini presents four decadents who kidnap dozens of young men and women and subject them to the most hideous forms of torture and perversion in an isolated villa. Rape, murder, and a coprophagic banquet are only the beginning of the
Jan 1, 1979 Wide
Aug 11, 1998
Water Bearer Films Inc.
Cast
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Paolo Bonacelli
The Duke -
Giorgio Cataldi
The Bishop -
Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Chief Magistrate -
Aldo Valletti
The President -
Caterina Boratto
Signora Castelli -
Elsa De Giorgi
Signora Vaccari -
Hélène Surgère
Signora Vaccari -
Sonia Saviange
The Piano Virtuoso -
Sergio Fascetti
Masked Victim -
Bruno Musso
Masked Victim -
Antonio Orlando
Masked Victim -
Claudio Cicchetti
Masked Victim -
Franco Merli
Masked Victim -
Umberto Chessari
Masked Victim -
Lamberto Book
Masked Victim -
Gaspare DiJenno
Masked Victim -
Giuliana Melis
Female Victim -
Faridah Malik
Female Victim -
Graziella Aniceto
Female Victim -
Renata Moar
Female Victim -
Dorit Henke
Female Victim -
Antinisca Nemour
Female Victim -
Benedetta Gaetani
Female Victim -
Olga Andreis
Female Victim -
Tatiana Mogilansky
Young Woman -
Susanna Radaelli
Young Woman -
Giuliana Orlandi
Young Woman -
Liana Acquaviva
Young Woman -
Rinaldo Missaglia
Young soldier -
Giuseppe Patruno
Young Soldier -
Guido Galletti
Young Soldier -
Efioso Etzi
Young Soldier -
Claudio Troccoli
Collaborator -
Fabrizio Menichini
Collaborator -
Maurizio Valaguzza
Collaborator -
Ezio Manni
Collaborator -
Paola Pieracci
Procuress/servant -
Carla Terlizzi
Procuress/servant -
Anna Maria Dossena
Procuress/servant -
Anna Recchimuzzi
Procuress/servant -
Ines Pellegrini
The slavegirl -
Marco Bellocchio
The President (Dubbed V... -
Laura Betti
Signora Vaccari (Dubbed... -
Michel Piccoli
Voice of the Duke (Fren... -
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All Critics (25) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (8) | DVD (13)
It's very hard to sit through and offers no insights whatsoever into power, politics, history or sexuality. Nasty stuff.
Top CriticVery hard to take, but in its own way an essential work.
A perfect example of the kind of material that, theoretically, anyway, can be acceptable on paper but becomes so repugnant when visualized on the screen that it further dehumanizes the human spirit, which is supposed to be the artist's concern.
I can't think of a reason in the world that anyone should subject him or herself to this.
Pasolini illustrates his belief that society forces people to conform by making his victims turn on each other, then making the audience complicit. Just by watching, we are voyeurs, and Pasolini calls us out in the movie's final moments.
A bracing cinematic buzzkill, Salò will wipe that shit-eating grin right off your face.
By reputation alone, owning Salò should be enough to impress your cinephilic friends; watching it with them will be whole lot harder.
Dramatically feral and artistically fertile, "Salo" is a rigorous movie that dares to use the metaphor of torture as a device of utter physical and psychological annihilation for both the victim and the torturer.
While it is easy to think of Salò as simply depraved, it is ultimately a savage plea for humanity
Intended to be read as a caustic commentary on the evils of Fascism, Salo is marred by the uneasy perception that Pasolini (rather like purveyors of modern Torture Porn) is simply getting off on the abuse he visualizes with such delight.
Hate ****.
Fastidiously attuned to the denial of the comforting release of either eroticism or expulsion, Pasolini's boudoirs of perversion lack De Sade's scarlet hedonism. Quite the opposite, his boners reveal only the presence of spiritual rigor mortis.
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom is one of the most uncomfortable experiences you will have with an arguably classic film.
There's a sense of pure evil clinging to the film like nothing I've ever experienced. I do not believe this is unintentional, nor do I believe it is pointless.
The result, despite moments of undeniably brilliant insight, is nearly unwatchable, extremely disturbing, and often literally nauseous.
There are absolutely fascinating ways of reading and understanding this Pasolini epic. But would I ever want to watch it again? Probably not.
Shocking film.
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Foreign Titles
- Salò oder Die 120 Tage von Sodom (DE)
- Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (UK)
