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The Roman life and the imaginary worlds of Pier Paolo Pasolini intermingle in Abel Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the fifty-year-old filmmaker and writer, in a lovely, haunting film that draws on his last interview and envisages scenes from an unmade final film and his incomplete novel, Petrolio. Willem Dafoe, regally exhausted, is the spitting image of the murdered director, and Pasolini’s beloved muse Ninetto Davoli returns to “finish” his friend’s work, but Ferrara wisely never attempts to merely ape Pasolini’s style, instead offering one iconoclastic artist’s tribute to another, a biopic that busts the boundaries of the form and a passion project decades in the imagining that gives Pasolini’s final moments on the beach at Ostia the terrible sanctity of the Passion.
Original Release
09/25/2014
US Release
05/10/2019
Cast
Name | Character |
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Willem Dafoe | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
Ninetto Davoli | Epifanio / Eduardo De Filippo |
Riccardo Scamarcio | Ninetto Davoli |
Valerio Mastandrea | Nico Naldini |
Roberto Zibetti | Carlo |
Andrea Bosca | Andrea Fago |
Giada Colagrande | Graziella Chiarcossi / Graziella |
Damiano Tamilia | Pino Pelosi / Giuseppe Pelosi |
Francesco Siciliano | Furio Colombo |
Luca Lionello | Narrator / Narratore |
Directors
Writers
Abel Ferrara, Maurizio Braucci, Nicola Tranquillino
Cast
Name | Character |
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Willem Dafoe | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
Ninetto Davoli | Epifanio / Eduardo De Filippo |
Riccardo Scamarcio | Ninetto Davoli |
Valerio Mastandrea | Nico Naldini |
Roberto Zibetti | Carlo |
Andrea Bosca | Andrea Fago |
Giada Colagrande | Graziella Chiarcossi / Graziella |
Damiano Tamilia | Pino Pelosi / Giuseppe Pelosi |
Francesco Siciliano | Furio Colombo |
Luca Lionello | Narrator / Narratore |
Adriana Asti | Susanna Pasolini |
Maria de Medeiros | Laura Betti |
Guillaume Rumiel Braun | Interviewer |
Dounia Sichov | Stewardess |
Pietro Angelini | Sandro |
Caterina Fornaciai | Stewardess Petroi |
Rosa Diletta Rossi | Patrizia |
Matthias Arduini | Patrizia's Child |
Francesco Acquaroli | Aldo Pommidoro |
Rossana Bravi | Mari Pommidoro |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Camille Chandellier | Executive Producer |
Costanza Coldagelli | Executive Producer |
Conchita Airoldi | Producer |
Valérie Bournonville | Producer |
Fabio Massimo Cacciatori | Producer |
Augusto Caminito | Producer |
Sante Casini | Producer |
David Hurst | Producer |
Thierry Lounas | Producer |
Joseph Rouschop | Producer |
Francesco Tatò | Producer |
Erik Luna | Producer |