La macchinazione

I'm very young, I'm still attempting the high school and Cinema is my passion. Some months ago I watched "Salò" by Pier Paolo Pasolini, then I've studied that Pasolini was murdered and that no one knew why. So you can imagine how much I was interesting in David Grieco's "La Macchinazione". So I bought the DVD. I was enchanted by the resemblance of Massimo Ranieri who plays wonderfully the poet of Casarsa. The film shows me how was the matter of facts. I think that young people like me have a responsibility to ask questions and to reflect on this History. I also liked the modern technology of photography and the soundtrack: I had never heard Pink Floyd before, but I really appreciate now. I would like to do a lot of questions to the director, there are many things I still want to understand. So thanks to David Grieco for showing us what Pier Paolo Pasolini suffered: he has become my favorite poet. This film is highly recommended.

Pasolini is one of the most quoted poets but often some people tries to manipulate his thought, I have always believed this. Every time some people try to say that Pasolini is passed. This film restores the full strength of Pasolini's vision without any rhetoric. The plot is brought forward really impeccably. The elegant trait of David Grieco is rare in our cinema and the film has a very good pace. The clarity allows the viewer to follow the film, but care is needed. Excellent the actors in particular Massimo Ranieri and Roberto Citran. The soundtrack is beautiful, Pink Floyd are a really great choice. Photography is for gourmets. Very accurate reconstruction of the "Borgata" spoken. It seems to be carried in 1975. The film is highly recommended!

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.

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.