Pasolini in Chiaroscuro

"Pasolini's nostalgia for pre-industrial Italy did not sever him from the present. He looked upon the rise of consumeristsociety with painful clarity. It inspired him to make his finalfilm, the most political of all, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.The radicalism of Salò is so extreme, it goes beyond cinemaand verges upon contemporary art. More than a filmmaker,Pasolini was an experimenter, a creator of new forms-thisundoubtedly explains why so many artists have paidhomage to him, and continue to do so.»Guillaume de Sardes