23 February 6pm
Screening of Il Giovane Corsaro - Pasolini da Bologna
by Emilio Marrese

Director: Emilio Marrese
Cast: Neri Marcorè, Nico Guerzoni e Samantha Faina
Docufilm, colour, 2022, 1h39’

In Italian with English subtitles

Introduction by Prof. Guido Bonsaver, University of Oxford

A young student prepares his degree thesis on Pasolini and Bologna by investigating the relationship of the great intellectual with the city of his childhood and his studies. Following in the footsteps left by Pasolini in Bologna, the protagonist will tell, for the first time in the form of a documentary the emotional, visceral but also controversial bond of Pasolini with Bologna until his final days. Bologna was also chosen by Pasolini as the set of important movies of his filmography such as "Edipo Re", "Comizi d'amore" and above all of the scandalous last " Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma". Many characteristics and even inconsistencies of Pasolini are shared with the nature of his hometown: the multifaceted cultural fervor, the curiosity towards all possible directions of artistic thought, the inconsistency between the bourgeois soul and the progressive, conservative and avant-garde, reactionary and rebellious, catholic and hedonist.