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  • Subject:      ON SCREEN: Pasolini: An Italian Crime
    From:         eye5@interlog.com (eye WEEKLY)
    Date:         1996/06/05
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    eye WEEKLY                                                June 6, 1996
    Toronto's arts newspaper                      .....free every Thursday
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    ON SCREEN                                                    ON SCREEN
    
                          PASOLINI: AN ITALIAN CRIME
    
    Starring Carlo De Filippi, Nicoletta Braschi and Tony Bertorelli. 
    Screenplay by Marco Tullio Giordana, Stefano Rulli and Sandro 
    Petraglia. Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. Italian with subtitles. 
    (AA) Opens June 7.
    
                               (eee of 5 eyes)
    
                                      by
                                  KATHE GRAY
    
    Pier Paolo Pasolini is renowned for the contributions he made to the 
    world of cinema. I know this from a film course I took in university. 
    Not that I got to see any Pasolini in class -- his material was 
    considered too explicit, too graphic, too sexually liberated, for a 
    bunch of sophomores. Instead, we watched The Bicycle Thief.
    
    Fast forward a few years and I still haven't seen any Pasolini. I 
    have, however, watched a lot of Law And Order and that's mostly what 
    Pasolini: An Italian Crime reminded me of: an Italian L&O with actors 
    dressed in that evil polyester garb people so liked in the '70s. Other 
    than the clothes, this is not a bad thing. I like L&O, I like seeing 
    how the twin institutions of law and justice work in concert, I like 
    how sometimes the bad guys win.
    
    Not that Pasolini is simply the story of good guys and bad guys. It 
    is, after all, about a great man's death. Pasolini was an outspoken 
    leftist ideologue, an artist with a flair for the sensational, and an 
    openly gay man. He died as he lived, controversially and in the public 
    eye.
    
    When his body was found savagely beaten and murdered by street 
    hustlers, his death was dismissed by some as "one of those faggot 
    things," and mourned by others as "a crime against culture." While 
    Pino Pelosi (played by Carlo De Filippi) was sentenced for Pasolini's 
    murder, some speculated that the death was a hit orchestrated by 
    fascists who feared his popularity and intellect. Botched crime scene 
    protocol, delayed witness interviews and an incomplete autopsy lend 
    credence to the theory. But we'll never know for sure: like the best 
    of L&O, Pasolini ends with fewer answers than questions.
    
    Visually straight ahead, Pasolini: An Italian Crime lacks the artistry 
    that I've read characterized Pasolini's films. However, there are 
    moments where grainy footage of the real Pasolini, of the 1975 crime 
    scene, of squatters and hustlers, are intercut in Jarman-esque 
    montages -- the strangely moving poetry of death.  
    
    In conjunction with the release of the film, an exhibition marking the 
    20th anniversary of Pasolini's death, entitled "From the Fields of 
    Friuli to the Canadian Universities," which features original 
    manuscripts, first editions, artwork and archival material, runs to 
    June 14 at the Robarts Library (130 St. George St.).
    
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