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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Movie · 1975 · 117 min

An unrelentingly grim and clinical descent into sadistic cruelty that is intellectually rigorous but emotionally devastating.

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1975 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Year
1975
Runtime
117 min
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • corruption
  • violence
  • morality
  • death
Places
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror9
Humour1
Realism7
Romance0
Tension9
Darkness10
Complexity8
Emotional weight10

Details

Genres
drama, exploitation, art, extreme cinema, LGBTQ-related
Directed by
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Written by
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pupi Avati, Sergio Citti
Starring
Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Bonacelli, Caterina Boratto, Ines Pellegrini, Elsa De Giorgi, Franco Merli, Hélène Surgère, Aldo Valletti
Music
Ennio Morricone
Cinematography
Tonino Delli Colli
Runtime
117 min
Country
Italy, France
Languages
French, German, Italian

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