the casilino's meadow [l.t.] Pier Paolo Pasolini’s voice introduces a monolog starring Carlo, the poet’s alter ego, in a desertic place that almost looks like the moon: an expanse of sand under a starry sky. The man begins a sort of erotic liturgy that borders on self-destructive anxiety. He offers himself to twenty male prostitutes, before a spectacular sunset with strong colors reminiscent to the melodramas of Sirk or Kaza, puts an end to the entire story. “This monolog from Petrolio is an involuntary trilogy dedicated to three extraordinary, 20th century Italian authors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giorgio Caproni and Carlo Emilio Gadda. In my experience, theatrical monologs have always revolved around an exclusive (and slightly obsessive) relationship with an actor, with whom one can create the rare and unrepeatable conditions of a sort of strange rite. Above all, I want the performance to be a theatrical celebration of that marvelous “literary sacrifice” which Pasolini carried out, for years, inside his mind and in his writings.”
Biography
film director
Giuseppe Bertolucci
Giuseppe Bertolucci (Parma, Italy, 1947) debuted in films in 1970 as assistant director for the film The Spider’s Stratagem, directed by his brother Bernardo. In 1977 he directed his first feature film, Berlinguer: I Love You followed, three years later, by Lost and Found and by the documentary Panni sporchi. After Segreti, segreti (1984) and Tuttobenigni (1986), he then made Strana la vita (1988), I cammelli (1988) and Love in Progress (1989). In 1994 he directed Troppo sole and in 1999 Il dolce rumore della vita. In 2006 he presented the documentary Pasolini prossimo nostro at the Venice Film Festival and two years later, always at Venice, La rabbia di Pasolini.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
I poveri muoiono prima (mm, doc., 1971), Berlinguer ti voglio bene (1977), Panni sporchi (tv, doc., 1980), Oggetti smarriti (1980), Segreti, segreti (1984), L’addio a Enrico Berlinguer (collettivo/collective, doc., 1984), Tuttobenigni (1986), Strana la vita (1988), I cammelli (1988), Amori in corso (1989), La domenica specialmente (ep. La domenica specialmente, 1991), Troppo sole (1994), Il pratone del casilino (cm, tv, 1995), Il dolce rumore della vita (1999), L’amore probabilmente (2001), Luparella (2002), Il mal di denti (cm, 2003), Pasolini prossimo nostro (doc., 2006), La rabbia di Pasolini (doc., 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Giuseppe Bertolucci
soggetto/story
dal romanzo/from the novel Petrolio di/by Pier Paolo Pasolini
fotografia/cinematography
Paolo Ferrari
montaggio/film editing
Fiorella Giovannelli
musica/music
Carlo Mayer
suono/sound
Adriano Schrade
interprete/cast
Antonio Piovanelli (voce narrante/Narrator)
produttori/producers
Pio Bordoni, Massimo Cortesi