L'Affaire Pasolini

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 skeptical when I heard about the new film on Pasolini's death. I do not like the word "conspiracy", I have always been cautious about. But when I saw the David Grieco's film I have been upset by the honest reconstruction of the murder of Pasolini and I understand that it is normal to be wary when you are in front of a submerged truth, you feel insecure. I believe that David Grieco has done a great movie, we deserve a Cinema that can make us aware. The mud machine that tried to destroy Pasolini is terrible. This film shows it without any rhetoric, everyone can understand the film and what it brings out, even young people. I think guys have just to see it, indeed. Also it is an elegant film. You will remain very touched by the sweetness of Massimo Ranieri and Milena Vukotić. Excellent Roberto Citran and Libero De Rienzo too. Brilliant idea the use of Pink Floid's music for the soundtrack, you'll really know ​what were those years. The special effects are a punch: the final sequence is truly visionary. After watching David Grieco's film I need to watch again all of Pasolini's works. Now I want to know the truth about his murder and I am sure that the great Cinema never leaves us alone.

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.

In my opinion this film is very interesting in order to understand the 70's Italian decade and to understand Pasolini's murderer. I think that this film is well played: I appreciate the work of every actor. Matteo Taranto and his quotation of Gian Maria Volonté impressed me a lot: I think that the remind to the film "Indagine di un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto" is precious. It's great that the director makes you observe the situation and then make you understand that you have all the elements to put together the potential truth. Some scenes are very touching and sensitive and are well constructed, especially the final sequence. Great film, highly recommended!

David Grieco piece together the documents and some important investigations about the murder of Pasolini with a coherent internal logic. The work is a masterpiece, beyond the high ethical value. Sets and costumes are great, Massimo Ranieri who plays Pasolini is extraordinary, touching and intense, poetic and strong. Excellent all the cast members. The music of Pink Floid make the film simply visionary and concrete. Pasolini used to say: "Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous." Through this film you will understand that an intellectual, a poet never dies.