This screening includes Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
- Date and time:
- Fri, Oct 17, 2014, From 6:30–8:26 pm
- Runtime:
- 1 hr 56 min
- Cost:
- Free, but ticketed
Series: Underground Film Series
About Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
- Year Released:
- 1976
- Genres:
- Drama, Experimental
- Metadata:
Salò is not a horror film; it is horrible. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1976 adaptation of the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom is a formally breathtaking, frequently upsetting, and occasionally unwatchable work of art. Pasolini’s film sets de Sade’s novel in 1944 fascist Italy in an effort to confront what Pasolini apparently perceived as a worse threat than fascism itself: the late 20th century order of neoliberal capitalism. Equally meditation and critique, Salò is an entry in the art of limits; the film does not simply explore the horizons of abjection—this threshold is where it lives. For mature audiences. (35mm presentation)