Cinema’s most notorious film: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò turns 50
- Written by Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
Criterion CollectionPier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom is turning 50. One of cinema’s most notorious films, Salò continues to be approached with trepidation – if approached at all.
Adapted from the equally infamous book by the Marquis de Sade, Salò is, ostensibly, Pasolini’s attempt to...
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