Nerolio
6.9
This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was best known to Americans for his film The Gospel According to St. Matthew. However, in his native Italy, he was at least as well known for his writing and poetry as for his filmmaking. In the first episode, Pasolini (Marco Cavicchioli) waxes poetic about the beauty of young men during a visit to Sicily. The second and more interesting segment concerns a meeting with a young man who visits Pasolini thinking that though he is an old has-been, Pasolini may be able to do him a favor. Pasolini twigs to the boy's intentions, and a sparring session ensues. The final episode shows him picking up a young man at Rome's train station and the events that led to his beating death in 1975.
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Cast
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Marco Cavicchioli
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Good Morning, Babylon
The Clandestine Journey: Lives of Saints and Sinners
Lucia Sardo
Known for
One Hundred Steps
7 and 8
Aurelio Grimaldi
Leonardo Giuliano
Vincenzo Crivello
Known for
Corleone
Sicilian Ghost Story
Caterina Nardi
Piera Degli Esposti
Known for
Il Divo
The Unknown Woman
Franco Mirabella
Mauro Lenares
Salvatore Lazzaro
Known for
Corleone
Maurizio Nicolosi
Street boy
Known for
Put Grandma in the Freezer
Corleone
Antonietta Carbonetti
Woman on train
Aurelio Grimaldi Director
United States release October 1, 1996 · Produced in Italy · Production Aranciafilm
Production
Arancia Cinema
Production
Aranciafilm
Production
Italy
Produced in
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Original language
Italian
Release dates
Switzerland · August 12, 1996
Premiere · Locarno Film Festival
United States · October 1, 1996
Chicago International Film Festival
Italy · October 16, 1998
Theatrical
Canada
September 11, 1996 · Toronto International Film Festival
Greece
November 8, 2002 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Netherlands
August 14, 1997
Norway
November 15, 1996 · Oslo International Film Festival
South Africa
March 13, 2004 · Johannesburg Pride South Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
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