2. He was known as a…
• Italian motion picture director
• Poet
• Novelist
• Linguist
• Painter
• Journalist (political)
• Each of these aspects informed his filmmaking
3. He was known as…
• He was a champion of people left behind in post war Italy.
• He was unique in his nervous mingling of intense, alienated,
Catholicism with gramscian communism.
4. About Pasolini…
• He was the son of an army officer
• He moved around a lot when he was younger but that didn’t effect
his education
• He attended the university of Bologna
5. He was interested in….
• Interests in philosophy, psychoanalysis and anthropology led him to
rethink some of the founding myths of European identity. Both
Christian and pagan. As a film maker his roots are in the Italian neo-
realism.
6. Facts…
• He’s against the cultural and economic policies of the post war
• The words of his own poetry, spoken by the film director played by
Orson Welles. “I am a force out of the past”
• Sets himself a project to recreate cinema, as a kind of poetry and is
very inspired by paintings (e.g. the last supper)
7. His life…
• In 1962 homosexuality was a crime in most places, which means he
was charged with it but no one knows the exact story. He was thrown
out of the Italian communist party and fled to Rome with his Mother.
• However everything bad that happened in his life inspired his film
making.
8. La Ricotta
• The film is 35 minutes.
• The film is about an American director making a film about the
passion of Christ.
• Where the film was about Christ it caused a lot of controversy.
• It led him to get a prison sentence, but it was suspended.
9. Italy
• The rules of Italy changed but he was still in love with the past and
didn’t want it to change.
10. More about his life..
• He’s sometimes seen as a Nobel peasant figure
• He was victimised for his homosexuality.
• His homosexuality got him killed.
11. La Ricotta
• Is an explosion of disgust at consumer society and its vulgarity, a
scabrous reproach to the catholic church for its abandonment of the
poor in that society, a film about a film.
12. La Ricotta
• “this movie is nothing but the temple overrun by the money changes”
13. La Ricotta
• The film was seized and is found guilty so he had a prison sentence of
four months.
