30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

Controversial, scandalous, and hotly debated, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Porcile investigates the relationship between parents and children and the consequences of disobedience of the latter. The film consists of two episodes. The first is set in Germany in the 1960s. A wealthy scion rejects his father’s suggestion to marry a girl and hides his secret love for animals, with which he has anal sex in the stables. The second episode takes place on the slopes of Etna, where a man roams around eating insects, small animals and, finally, the flesh of a soldier whom he succeeds in killing and roasts in the flaming mouth of the volcano. He continues to practice cannibalism until he is caught and devoured by stray dogs.

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  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Poet, novelist, director, and actor, Pier Paolo Pasolini is considered one of the most important artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Born in Bologna in 1922 and raised between Emilia and Friuli, he moved to Rome in the 1950s. He began in cinema collaborating with Federico Fellini on Le notti di Cabiria. His first film, Accattone, was followed by another twenty, until the time of his tragic death in 1975, after censorship, praise, criticism, and progressive worldwide fame.