Salo, or The 120 Days Of Sodom

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Italian: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma), commonly referred to as simply Salò, is a 1975 Italian-French art film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, with uncredited writing contributions by Pupi Avati. It is based on the book The 120 Days of Sodom, by the Marquis de Sade.

The Marquise de Sades notorious novel has been transposed and updated to 1944. The scene is Salo, in northern Italy, when Mussolini is briefly freed from Italian partisans by Nazi forces. In a remote chateau, four powerful and prominent men, leaders of the local fascist mechanism, host a group of kidnapped young men and women,expressing their ultimate desires as the world crumbles around them. Four ageing courtesans relate stories of their carnal pasts, which are then acted out with the guests of the party. By exercising their power to degrade and destroy,the fascists illustrate how the misuses of power lead to the murder of innocents.

Special Features:

• Ostia – The Death of Pasolini' by Coil Original Italian Trailer

Critic Reviews:

• " Saló still holds up to this day as one of the most sodomising films to ever brace our screens, and rightly gained its controversial status in the cinema industry. " – Zoe Rose Smith

• " Salò offers a lesson in how to depict cruelty without re-enacting it – a lesson few filmmakers even want to learn. " – Eve Tushnet

• " It reflects the libertines excesses and deconstructs them, making the audience complicit in their horrors by our passivity, not unlike the German citizens who sat idly by while Hitler slaughtered millions. " – Matthew Lucas