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Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom [Blu-ray] [1975] | ![Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom [Blu-ray] [1975]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-Fv4GWn7L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Actors: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi
Studio: Bfi Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 4821
Format: Box Set, Pal
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 117 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.8
EAN: 5035673010013
ASIN: B001BOA2M0
Release Date: October 2, 2008
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 A bizarre choice for BFI's first Blu-Ray October 2, 2008
Jerry (Pacific Northwest)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Blu-Ray is our best hope for a truly high-def. consumer format and while it vies for market share against standard DVD in a poor consumer economy, the BFI chooses this title as it's first release? Utterly bizarre in my view to pass over works like The 400 Blows, Rashomon, La Dolce Vita, etc. for a film mainly infamous for its...infamy. If they were going to release a Pasolini I much rather would have seen The Gospel According to St. Matthew and if they were going to release a famous film by a gay filmmaker, I would have preferred Jean Genet's Un Chant D'Amour.
I saw the film years ago and it is to film what Robert Mapplethorpe's s&m photos are to the photography world. That is, a giant, transgressive finger at established norms created (in both cases) by gay artists of Catholic background who decided at some point that they were going to make something combining sex with violence so repugnant that even sympathetic viewers would cringe when viewing them.
That said, the BFI always does a bang up job on their releases and I have no doubt this will be the best this film has ever looked.
 Ascent Into The Empyrean August 27, 2008
Brady Orme (Hull, England)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
There are few movies out there, if any, that can generate as much ire and disgust as Pasolini's "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma". Over the years, the film has created this almost mythical quality around itself, if mostly for the fact that it's still banned / badly cut in many countries around the World (Including Australia; so much for the Enlightenment). Not so for us lucky Brits - The BBFC has passed the uncut edition since the Halcyon Days of 2000, when I was lucky enough to view it on Film4 late at night. Make no mistakes, if any film has the ability to transform you into a gibbering, crying mess, it's this one.
Not for the Faint-Hearted? You'd better believe it.
And thus, it's hard to really "recommend" this film to anyone, as you wouldn't really "recommend" divorce - But it's a life experience you can gain valuable knowledge from. The film takes it's inspiration / Modus Operandi from the Marquis De Sade's notorious novel "The 120 Days of Sodom" , which, if you have read it, you will know perfectly well what you can expect from the film. Transporting the setting to Mussolini-Era Fascist Italy, four Aristocratic Libertines subject their young subjects to Sexual Manipulation and Torture, both physical and psychological. Pasolini does not shun from showing these in all their brightest colours, and considering that the great man was murdered mere months after the film's premiere, it can be surmised that it raised much anger amongst those artistically inclined. Watch at your peril, without Mother and Children preferably.
Notes on the 2-Disc BFI edition itself - The film has been released before, on Criterion and BFI in the '90s. Both were of poor quality and, thanks to Pasolini's estate revoking Criterion's rights to sell the film, made this edition the rarest / most expensive in the World; well, no longer a problem. The BFI has ported over the Criterion release mainly (Here's hoping it isn't a direct NTSC-to-PAL port, the quality will suffer), apart from one particular bonus: a 25-second sequence that has never been released before showing a reading of a Gottfried Benn poem. Nothing remarkable, but it's something. And, lest we forget, we now are the recipients of BFI's first-ever Blu-Ray release; along with Criterion (Who have now announced they will soon be releasing Blu-Rays themselves) and Eureka's "Masters of Cinema" label, it's a Godsend to see Art-House in HD.
It's been said before that for Art to be effective, it must be dangerous. "Salò" is more dangerous than Ebola.
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