La macchinazione

I saw the movie in DVD and it has fully fascinated me. In the box there is also a second DVD containing several extra contributions: it has been useful to understand many things that I had only guessed watching the movie. Now I am very upset about what happened to Pasolini, it's amazing his honest sacrifice and it's appalling the cruelty with which they decided to kill him in every sense. The movie has sequences simply moving, you have to be very careful to follow what's going on. I am sincerely touched by the talent of the actors and I hope to have soon the opportunity to watch this movie on a screen of a cinema: Why did I have to wait for the DVD to watch it? Highly recommended

If you want to understand what happened to Pier Paolo Pasolini, this is the right film. David Grieco leaves the viewer the chance to pick up the information that he gives. An accurate reconstruction that is not only fiction. Massimo Ranieri resembled Pasolini and he's extremely generous in this interpretation. Milena Vukotić's in her best interpretation. Every actor pursues his own interpretation impeccably. An extraordinary soundtrack (Pink Floyd), an engaging and emotionally mounting, especially in the end. It is a political and ethical film in the best way, it has its origins in Pasolini and Petri, but has its own strong originality. Grieco uses modern techniques to make the truth accessible and reachable for everyone who care. No one can abstain after watching this movie.

I usually talk about Pasolini with my students as a teacher and when I've known David Grieco and his movie "La Macchinazione" I immediately bought his book edit by Rizzoli and invited my students to watch the film. So we had passionate discussions about Pasolini's death: the film gave us a valid interpretative perspective supported both by meticulous documentary research and by sources of direct information. Many thanks from us to David Grieco: his well structured film has a high formal and expressive level. It helps to reflect on a complex and delicate matter and it makes us more aware about the facts of which Pasolini was the protagonist and victim.

I was a little girl when Pasolini was murdered and when the news was spread by the newscast, my mother said: "It's impossible! Someone have killed him, they never could convince me that things went so". After forty years this film reveals the true sequence of the events and people who killed Pasolini. I appreciate David Grieco's honest approach. It seems to me that the director's effort is to give us the opportunity to understand the real questions behind Pasolini's murder and set us free to highlight this facts. David Grieco collected a lot of evidence in a sensitive way which I have appreciated in the choose of the sound track, in the photography and in the mounting of the film. Massimo Ranieri as Pasolini is really great with a degree of expressive intensity typical of a genuine talent. I appreciate also the young Alessandro Sardelli (Pino Pelosi) and the sophisticated and very elegant interpretation of Milena Vukotic (Susanna Colussi) and also the realistic and persuasive Tony Laudiadio as the Lawyer. The entire cast expresses an excellent performance.

This film has deeply impressed me. I have never been so sad after seeing a movie. I had tears in my eyes after the last scene and a strong sense of hardship. David Grieco, many thanks for the courage. The actors are all very good, especially the protagonist. I understood many things, and I knew better the story of Pasolini. Incredible how important is this intellectual, this man who cared about understanding his time. I think we have a great opportunity to understand our time too through this film. The scene that struck me mostly is the one in which Pasolini releases an interview with a French journalist. I also appreciate the next one, in which Pasolini has the vision of our digital age, I think that both scenes are very representative of our condition.