Breaching Closure in Pasolini’s ‘Teorema’
Pier Paolo Pasolini's classic drama, Teorema, grapples with the parable -- the manner of knowing that which always remains just beyond our grasp.
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Weapons of Poetry and Images: On the Works of Pier Paolo Pasolini
A thread runs through Pasolini's artistic and political work for which he used various terms to identify the sacred, the mythic, the soul, and the spirit -- all strategies for appreciating life in even the most difficult circumstances.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom’ Makes a Mockery of Things
Viewers are acutely aware that Pasolini makes a mockery of things and went too far with Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. But too far, morally? Personally and psychologically? Politically? Somehow metaphysically?