Rome, November 1975. The last day of the life of Pier Paolo Pasolini. On the verge of completing his masterpiece, he pursues his ruthless criticism of the ruling class, risking his life for it. His statements are outrageous and his films are persecuted by the censors. Pasolini is going to spend his last hours with his beloved mother, and then with his close friends, before leaving, driving his Alfa Romeo, searching for an adventure in the eternal city…
STARRING
Willem Dafoe
Ninetto Davoli
Riccardo Scamarcio
Valerio Mastandrea
Adriana Asti
Maria De Medeiros
Roberto Zibetti
Andrea Bosca
Giada Colagrande
Damiano Tamilia
Francesco Siciliano
Luca Lionello
Salvatore Ruocco
WRITER
Maurizio Braucci
D’après une idée de : Abel Ferrara et Nicola Tranquillino
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Stefano Falivene
SOUND
Julien MOMENCEAU
Sylvia MORAES
Thomas GAUDER
FILM EDITING
Fabio Nunziata
PRODUCTION
CAPRICCI – URANIA PICTURES – TARANTULA – DUBLIN FILMS et ARTE FRANCE CINÉMA
DISTRIBUTION
Les Bookmakers
Capricci Films
Abel Ferrara
With a reputation as a director of controversial cinema,
ABEL FERRARA moves into his fourth decade of filmmaking with continued work in the US as well as European projects. Recent successes include Pasolini, starring Willem Dafoe, and Welcome to NY, starring Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset. Born in the Bronx in 1951, Ferrara started on Super 8 in his teens in upstate New York with writers Nicholas St. John and John McIntyre. His first features were Driller Killer and Ms. 45 in the late 70s. The 80s and 90s led to a cult reputation with legendary films like The King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction and The Funeral. Ferrara just completed the principal photography of his next feature Siberia with Willem Dafoe.
FILMOGRAPHY
1979 DRILLER KILLER
1981 Ms. 45
1984 FEAR CITY
1987 China Girl
1990 The King of New York
1992 Bad Lieutenant
1993 Body Snatchers
1993 Dangerous Game
1995 The Addiction
1996 The Funeral
1997 The Blackout
1998 New Rose Hotel
2001 R XMas
2005 Mary
2007 Go Go Tales
2008 Chelsea on the Rocks documentary
2009 Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
2011 4:44 – Last Day on Earth
2014 Pasolini
2014 Welcome to New York
2017 Piazza Vittorio documentary
2017 Alive in France documentary
2019 Tommaso
2019 The Projectionist documentary