Pier Paolo Pasolini

A poet and novelist before he made films, Pasolini cast the slums of Rome with people who lived there. Accattone follows a pimp whose life falls apart when his prostitute goes to prison. In Mamma Roma, a former prostitute buys a fruit stall to give her son a respectable life. Theorem sends a mysterious visitor into a wealthy family, where he seduces every one of them. The Decameron films Boccaccio's bawdy tales.

Signature

• Non-professional actors from the Roman outskirts.
• The sacred and the sexual in the same frame.
• A Marxist attack on the bourgeois family (Theorem).
• The Trilogy of Life, starting with The Decameron.