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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

The final vision of a controversial filmmaker.

1976 · 1h 56m · TV-MA Drama, Horror
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

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It's very hard to sit through and offers no insights whatsoever into power, politics, history or sexuality. Nasty stuff.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

Very hard to take, but in its own way an essential work.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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A perfect example of the kind of material that, theoretically, anyway, can be acceptable on paper but becomes so repugnant when visualized on the screen that it further dehumanizes the human spirit, which is supposed to be the artist's concern.

Vincent Canby, New York Times

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