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.

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'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.

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.

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