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 are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.
Acting
Dafoe disappears into Pasolini's weary, hungry eyes.
Direction
Ferrara at his most restrained and therefore most brutal.
Writing
Dialogue lifted from real interviews, interviews that never happened.
Director
Abel Ferrara
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
Francesco Siciliano
Furio Colombo
Luca Lionello
Narrator (voice)
Salvatore Ruocco
Politician
Adriana Asti
Susanna Pasolini
Maria de Medeiros
Laura Betti
Guillaume Rumiel Braun
Interviewer
Dounia Sichov
Stewardess
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Ninetto Davoli was Pasolini's muse and lover; casting him as his own memory took multiple conversations over years.
Pasolini's actual murder remains officially unsolved—a hustler confessed then recanted, and conspiracy theories about political assassination persist in Italy today.
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