
2009 LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL "Official Selection"
THE CRITICS
"Roberta Torre is never predictable or banal… The director always treats "sensitive" material from an original angle and with a desire for experimentation… ITIBURTINOTERZO (Innocent Lives from Pasolini’s Rome)... LA NOTTE QUANDO E’ MORTO PASOLINI (The Night Pasolini Died), two documentaries that bear the mark of the director’s powerful and sweeping artistic personality…"
ROBERTA TORRE
"LA NOTTE QUANDO E’ MORTO PASOLINI" (The Night Pasolini Died):
"Apart from Pino Pelosi’s shocking new confession, I wasn’t interested in making the umpteenth film on Pasolini’s death… Instead, I entered the world of Pino Pelosi, went down into his basement with him where he stores his crates of mementos, obsessively keeps the shoes he wore that night….I had the impression I was face to face with a possessed man, as if there were two personalities in him, his and Pasolini’s, as if he were carrying a ghost on his back…"
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