Pasolini
Tarantula (2014)
Biography, Drama, Queer Themes/Interest
Not In Collection
#2142
8*
Seen ItYes
(05/07/2020 Kanopy)
IMDB   5.8
87 mins Italy / English
Kanopy 
Willem Dafoe Pier Paolo Pasolini
Ninetto Davoli Epifanio
Riccardo Scamarcio Ninetto Davoli
Valerio Mastandrea Nico Naldini
Roberto Zibetti Carlo
Andrea Bosca Andrea Fago
Giada Colagrande Graziella Chiarcossi
Damiano Tamilia Pino Pelosi
Francesco Siciliano Furio Colombo
Luca Lionello Narrator
Salvatore Ruocco Politician
Adriana Asti Susanna Pasolini
Maria de Medeiros Laura Betti
Guillaume Rumiel Braun Interviewer
Dounia Sichov Hostess
Pietro Angelini Sandro
Caterina Fornaciai
Rosa Diletta Rossi
Matthias Arduini
Francesco Acquaroli Aldo Pommidoro
Rossana Bravi Mari Pommidoro
Emilia Folcarelli
Lola Pagnani
Tatiana Luter Lesbian
Luka Tartaglia Cop #1
Director
Abel Ferrara
Producer Augusto Caminito
Conchita Airoldi
Writer Abel Ferrara
Maurizio Braucci
Nicola Tranquillino
Cinematography Stefano Falivene


We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art (represented by scenes from his films, his novel-in-progress Petrolio, and his projected film Porno-Teo-Kolossal) are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.
Edition Details
No. of Discs/Tapes 1

Notes
An enjoyable art-house film. The events leading up to his death are said to be essentially accurate, at least acording to one of the more accepted versions of the narrative.
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