| Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom - Criterion Collection | 
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Actors: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Marco Bellocchio
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Studio: Criterion Collection
Brand: Image Entertainment
Label: Criterion Collection
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: Italian (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD
Running Time: 116 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.9
MPN: IMEDCC1764D
UPC: 715515031028
EAN: 0715515031028
ASIN: B0019X3ZZY
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
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Product Description
Pier Paolo Pasolini s notorious final film, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . it s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker s transposition of the Marquis de Sade s 18th-century opus of torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist Italy remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
The End of Salo, a 40-minute documentary about the film s final scene
Salo: Yesterday and Today, a 35-minute documentary featuring interviews with Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini s friend Nineto Davoli
Fade to Black, a new short documentary about Salo, featuring interviews with filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, and John Maybury
New interviews with set designer Dante Ferretti and filmmaker/film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin
Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
Theatrical trailer
Optional English subtitles
PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Neil Bartlett, Roberto Chiesi, Naomi Greene, Gary Indiana, and Sam Rohdie, and excerpts from Gideon Bachman s on-set diary
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 not a movie for anybody January 8, 2009
This movie is gross from a multiply of positions. It doesn't have any redeeming features or points what so ever. Not for anyone with a weak stomach.
 Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom December 20, 2008
With his "Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom," director Pier Paolo Pasolini gives us depravity to the nth degree. Nine teenage boys and nine teenage girls are taken prisoner in a majestic villa in 1944 Fascist Italy. With the source material being the Marquis de Sade's tome, we pretty much think we have an idea of what we are in store for. Yet it is more graphic than that, given that the images are celluloid as opposed to just words on a page. Roughly, the first third of the film was fine (a relative term); the second, nauseating; and the third, with a horrendous final ten minutes, almost unbearable. The things I liked about Salo have to do with the first third, especially at the beginning when three young men try to flee on bikes their future captors; you can see the fear in their faces. Or the young lady who mourns the mother who died trying to save her from what is going to be a terrible fate. I enjoyed the sets and the costumes, an elaborateness that, coupled with the grotesqueness, put me in mind of Peter Greenaway's equally disgusting, but for me more gorgeous and far more watchable, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Those bits of appreciation are more old-school cinematic, I suppose. The scenes with the human waste and the scenes of violence are ones that I found more difficult, despite the always beautiful cinematography. Pasolini is tough for me, and admittedly the more modern Teorema (with its 1960s bourgeois family affected by an enigmatic visitor) is the work of his that I most esteem.
Damaged Disc December 15, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am writing this review to inform buyers to check their disc upon arrival. When I received my disc, there were multiple deep scratches located on the disc. It didn't affect the playability of the movie but it's disappointing considering that this should have arrived in brand new condition. It seems to have been damaged by the manufacturer/packager and not by amazon. I am currently in the process of returning this movie which is quite a hassle considering I'm in Iraq at an APO adddress.
 Sad Sick Shocking Hateful Powerful December 11, 2008
I held off watching Salo for a long time. In fact, I was going to skip it altogether in my quest to watch every Criterion Collection movie. I finally watched it, fully expecting it to make my head explode. Well, it didn't make my head explode but I did gag several times during the forced merde eating scenes. The movie filled with nudity and sex but is quite possibly the least erotic movie I've ever seen. If anything, the movie is anti-eroticism.
There are various interpretations of the movie. The consensus seems to be that Pasolini was trying to portray the horrors of facism. Actually, I can't help but see a bitter rant against the darkest impulses of mankind. In Salo, we see the inmates running the asylum. The crazy people, made even crazier with power, torture the sane in a world turned morally upside-down.
That Salo is appalling is obvious. It is meant to be. Few mainstream movies are this blunt in thier intention to offend. The movie watches as two hours of pure undistilled hate and evil. The movie is extremely well-made. Most movies, I can't remember an hour after seeing. Powerful and provacative, Salo has stayed with me for weeks. I'm not giving Salo five stars because I enjoyed it. Who would enjoy this besides violent pedophiles? Sometimes, there's more to watching and understanding a movie than a simplistic enjoyed/dislike evaluation. Salo cannot be judged by a thumbs up or down. I'm giving it five stars because it was well and bravely made and itmade me think and feel and react.
Good, Good, Good December 6, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I,ve wanted to see this sence the sixties. It was more than I expected.
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