Salo Review
This is a warning.
This movie is not for the faint-hearted.
By far one of the most notorious art films ever made.
Salo was banned in several countries and its director, Paolo Pasolini, was murdered before the movie was even released.
A black political comedy disguised as a horror film.
What happens when four Italian fascists kidnap a group of teenagers while bombs fall on their dwindling fiefdom in the final days of the Second World War?
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One could say it’s all just ritual torture.
But there is rigor in this movie.
The cinematography is world class and the soundtrack is haunting and iconic.
One could say Salo is extremely indulgent in its excesses and not worth watching.
But it remains a critical work.
A comic snuff film that is an angry attack on the totalitarian mind and its deepest and most perverse roots.
A cinematic demon orgy that many leading film critics have praised, but which they may never see again.
Salo is the crazy aunt who lives in everyone’s sexual and emotional basement.
So beware.
