Salò

4K UHD, BFI, Region Free/B

Banned, censored and reviled the world over since its release, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final and most controversial masterpiece is presented here in a new 4K restoration. The content and imagery of Salò is extreme: it retains the power to shock, repel and distress. But it remains a cinematic milestone: culturally significant, politically vital and visually stunning.

Based on a novel by the Marquis de Sade - and taking as its setting the miniature fascist republic which Mussolini established in Italy - this is a film about power, corruption, and the degradation of the human body. It is a devastating, angry cry from one of the most controversial auteurs in cinema history.

• Newly restored in 4K
• Original Italian language, and alternative English language versions 
• Audio commentary by film critic Kat Ellinger 
• ‘OSTIA (The Death of Pasolini)’ Coil’s 1986 track with video accompaniment from 2008 
• Open Your Eyes! (2008, 22 mins): Pasolini and his actors at work on the set of Salò 
• Walking with Pasolini(2008, 22 mins): documentary featuing Neil Bartlett and Noam Chomsky 
• Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die (1981, 101 mins): classic documentary on the life and death of Pasolini 
• Salò: Fade to Black(2001, 24 mins): documentary exploring Pasolini’s Salò 
• Ostia(1987, 27 mins): features Derek Jarman, and also includes optional audio commentary 
• The End of Salò (2008, 40 mins): documentary looking at the film’s production 
• Enfants de Salò(2009, 18 mins): French filmmakers including Gaspar Noé deconstruct Salò
• Original Italian trailer