Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 1922-Rome, 1975) was a poet, narrator, essayist, literary critic and, as a filmmaker, author of fundamental films such as Teorema (1968), El Decameron (1971) or the controversial Saló or the 120 days of Sodom (1975). After a difficult childhood and adolescence, faced with a tyrannical father and the ghosts of homosexuality incompatible with the canons of the time, Pasolini worked as a rural teacher in his native Friuli; In the 1950s he began a valuable but little-known literary career in Rome that reflected his early social and political commitment to the most disadvantaged and vulnerable, and which was soon backed by Natalia Ginzburg. His filmography, lyrical and controversial in equal parts, soon obtained the support of the great masters of Italian cinema.