Talk with Abel Ferrara and screening of “Pasolini”
Abel Ferrara, Pasolini, 2014
Production : Capricci / Coproduction : Urania Pictures, Tarantula, Dublin Films
The evening will start with an encounter with Abel Ferrara and will be followed by the screening.
Rome, November 1975. The last day of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s life. On the verge of completing his masterpiece Salo, he continued his merciless criticism of the ruling class, risking his life in the process.
His declarations were scandalous, his films persecuted by the censors. Pasolini spends his last hours with his beloved mother, then with his close friends, before setting off in his Alfa Romeo in search of an adventure in the eternal city…
Pasolini
2014/France, Italy, Belgium/ 1h24 / VOST FR
With : Willem Dafoe,Adriana Asti, Ninetto Davoli, Maria de Medeiros
Director: Abel Ferrara / Screenplay: Maurizio Braucci, based on an idea by Abel Ferrara and Nicola Tranquillino
Photography: Stefano Falivene / Sound recording: Julien Momenceau, Sylvia Moraes, Thomas Gauder / Costumes: Rossano Marchi / Sets: Igor Gabriel / Picture editing : Fabio Nunziata
Producer: Thierry Lounas, Conchita Airoldi, Joseph Rouschop / Production: Capricci / Coproduction: Urania Pictures, Tarantula, Dublin Films
With the participation of : Eurimages, MIBACT, Canal +, Arte France, Région Aquitaine, Région Pays de la Loire, Agence ECLA Aquitaine, Wallimage, Italian Tax Credit, Belgian Federal Tax Shelter, Cinéfinance Tax Shelter, Belgacom
Distribution : Capricci
Born in 1951, Abel Ferrara grew up in the Bronx and met Nicholas St. John at school, with whom he wrote most of his films. He began making amateur Super 8 films under the pseudonym Jimmy Boy L. until 1979. That year, his career took off with his horror film Driller Killer, which, noticed by William Friedkin, offered him the opportunity to shoot his second film, Angel of Vengeance. In the 1990s, he shot his biggest films, most of them in New York, including The King of New York in 1990, Bad Lieutenant in 1992, The Addiction in 1995, Our Funeral in 1996 and Christmas in 2001. In 2012, he left New York for Rome, where he made several documentaries before shooting Pasolini and Tommaso.
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