The End of Salo (2008) 

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Production designer Dante Ferretti, screenwriter Pupi Avati as well as actors Antinisca Nemour and Paolo Bonacelli are just a few of the people who are interviewed for this forty-minute documentary that takes a look at the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's SALO: 120 DAYS OF SODOM. This documentary covers quite a bit of ground including the subject matter and the making of the picture but also what the director was trying to do with it all. I thought the most fascinating interviews came from the two actors in the film. They both played among the victims and I thought their stories were quite interesting and especially then talking about the subject matter, the nudity and of course the scenes where the characters are fed crap.

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Discussions about the conception, production and legacy of Pasolini's disturbing final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975).

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