SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Release Date: January 10, 1976 Starring: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo, Quintavalle Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Genre(s): Art Horror Runtime: 1h 57m Summary: A group of fascists round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to a 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture. Review: I’m not going to pontificate and dig too deep here, as there have been dozens of studies, reviews, and serious discussions surrounding this notorious 1976 film, and I couldn’t add much more to what has been unearthed since. What I can reflect on is my experience, which was, to be fair, rattled. Sure, I’ve been on an extreme cinema kick lately so this shouldn’t have had such an impact after films like High Tension and A Serbian Film. And I’ve been thinking back on it over the past couple of days to try out my finger on it, with mixed results. For one thing, I’ve always found films from the 70’s to be drastically ...