In this essay Bilge Ebiri writes about Pier Paolo Pasolini, a gay Marxist filmmaker whose work from the 1960s remains controversial and shocking today.
“What is perhaps most remarkable about these films is that while Pasolini certainly grew and changed as an artist, his voice and sensibility remained unmistakably consistent: the director who made one of the Vatican's favorite movies was the same one whose final film is still banned in numerous countries.”