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Pasolini

2014

Abel Ferrara

Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio, Adriana Asti ...

5.7

1,682

Drama A look at the final days of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and the confusion surrounding his death in 1975.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Willem Dafoe bears an uncanny resemblance to Pier Paolo Pasolini (...) But Abel Ferrara’s 'Pasolini' is otherwise a film that’s more interesting in theory than achievement."	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Ferrara has come up with something pretty special here: a subtle, seductive, lamp-lit hymn to one artist’s talents from another in the process of rediscovering his own. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"One suspects Pasolini himself would have approved of casting Willem Dafoe to play himself (...) But it’s doubtful whether he would have found much else to admire about 'Pasolini'."	NEU
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"It's profane and it's precious and it glows like the moon. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"Half a richly textured, engrossing biopic (...), half an unutterably tedious reenactment of the writings he was working on at the time of his death, [it] is a frustrating film, despite vast stretches of compelling storytelling."	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A sober portrait of the writer at work, with especially imaginative attention to the work itself."	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Though it can be richly evocative as a mood piece (...) it isn’t without its inconsistencies (...) The movie never errs in its sincerity"	POS

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