Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/06/2026
9:15 pm - 11:30 pm
Location
Row House Cinema
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One of the most controversial movies ever made, this 1975 Italian film reimagines an equally controversial novel.
The novel 120 Days of Sodom was written by Donatien Alphonse François (1740-1814), better known as the Marquis de Sade. Sodom describes the activities of four wealthy Frenchmen who use a hidden castle to seek the ultimate sexual gratification. The novel was never completed and was finally published in 1904 — almost 120 years after de Sade stopped writing it.
This film moves the story to 1940’s Italy where a group of fascists kidnap 18 teenagers and subject them to four months of extreme and humiliating treatment strictly for the group’s pleasure.
“Salo” was the last film by the daring and influential Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). The openly gay Pasolini was savagely beaten and run over several times with his own car on the night of November 2, 1975. The identity of his murder remains a mystery and may be connected with organized crime.
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