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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sal, or The 120 Days of Sodom has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . Its also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmakers transposition of the Marquis de Sades eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
“Sal”: Yesterday and Today, a thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Nineto Davoli
Fade to Black, a twenty-three-minute documentary featuring directors Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, and John Maybury, as well as scholar David Forgacs
The End of “Sal”, a forty-minute documentary about the films production
Video interviews with set designer Dante Ferretti and director and film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin
Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
Theatrical trailer
PLUS: Essays by Roberto Chiesi and Naomi Greene, and (Blu-ray only) essays by Neil Bartlett, Breillat, Sam Rohdie, and Gary Indiana, and excerpts from Gideon Bachmanns on-set diary
