Rome as lover, muse, and wound — Pasolini's city speaks in whispers and screams.
For Pasolini, Rome is neither just a simple setting or a place to live. Rome had a physical, carnal and passionate existence for the man and the poet.
Direction
Bergala treats footage as archaeological excavation, not biography.
Editing
Jagged cuts between then and now that refuse nostalgia.
Director
Alain Bergala
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Graziella Chiarcossi, interviewed here, was Pasolini's cousin and muse — she rarely spoke on camera before this.
Bergala co-wrote with Godard in the 1980s; this film inherits that militant, essayistic tradition but trades polemic for elegy.
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