From Arabian Nights to The Gospel According to St. Matthew, these 10 movies by Pier Paolo Pasolini are his best.
Few filmmakers in the history of cinema have been as provocative and challenging as Pier Paolo Pasolini while also achieving a significant level of international fame. He began working in the Italian film industry as a screenwriter in the 1950s and started directing his features in the early 1960s. He worked steadily throughout the rest of the decade and into the 1970s, though he had his directing career cut short when, in 1975, he was brutally and mysteriously murdered at the age of 53.
9 'The Hawks and the Sparrows' The Hawks and the Sparrows has a strange, somewhat repetitive flow to it and certainly feels like a surrealist comedy with an emphasis on surrealism. That being said, it's less than 90 minutes long and isn't quite as in-your-face when it comes to adult content as other Pasolini films, so it's not the worst place to start for newcomers to the renowned Italian filmmaker.
It's a film adaptation of the Athenian tragedy of the same name, all revolving around a strange and disturbing prophecy that says a young man will kill his father and marry his mother. It's not too surprising Pasolini gravitated towards such a confronting story, and he certainly puts his own spin on it here, using the tragedy to comment on bourgeois and Fascist Italy during parts of the 20th century, particularly near World War II.
Much of the film then becomes about the various family members trying to readjust to life without this mysterious visitor, eventually falling into despair and essentially unable to function. Read into what it's about however you want because it's the slow and purposefully vague film that leaves tons up to interpretation.
4 'Love Meetings' Beyond feature films, Pier Paolo Pasolini also made a collection of short films and documentary features. Of the latter, Love Meetings is perhaps his most widely celebrated and well-known, and given he could make great documentaries alongside non-documentaries, it's worth highlighting at least one.
2 'Mamma Roma' One year after Accattone, Pasolini followed it up with a film often viewed as even better. That film is 1962's Mamma Roma, which follows a middle-aged woman who used to work as a prostitute using the money she's saved to start a new chapter in her life, but finds her past and strained relationship with her son making that easier said than done.
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