Hoezo in KINO

[WARNING: contains scenes of extreme sexual violence, bodily harm and other upsetting visuals.]
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s loose adaptation of Marquis de Sade’s ‘120 Days of Sodom’ is a howling indictment of what the Italian director recognized as a foul with the current human condition concerning fascism, mass consumerism (including fast food) and modernism. Salo is an actual town in Northern Italy, where Mussolini resided in the latter years of WWII and where he’s an honorary citizen to this day. It was also the place where Pasolini’s brother was killed in 1945. Banned in many countries, this controversial and intentionally unwatchable parade of torture and degradation imposed on a group of children by fascist dignitaries, remains as notorious as it is misunderstood and unfortunately just as relevant now as it was in 1975. Pasolini meant for Salo to be the first chapter in his ‘Trilogy of Death’ but the director himself was brutally murdered before the film was released. The film is a favourite of Noé’s but also Michael Haneke and John Waters hold Salo in high regard. Italian language with English subtitles.