Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1975 ‘Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma’ Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

The final vision of a controversial filmmaker.

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

Paolo Bonacelli Giorgio Cataldi Umberto P. Quintavalle Aldo Valletti Caterina Boratto Elsa De Giorgi Hélène Surgère Sonia Saviange Sergio Fascetti Bruno Musso Antonio Orlando Claudio Cicchetti Franco Merli Umberto Chessari Lamberto Book Gaspare Di Jenno Giuliana Melis Faridah Malik Graziella Aniceto Renata Moar Dorit Henke Antiniska Nemour Benedetta Gaetani Olga Andreis Tatiana Mogilansky Susanna Radaelli Giuliana Orlandi Liana Acquaviva Rinaldo Missaglia Show All…

Alternative Titles

Saló o los 120 días de Sodoma, 120 meres sta Sodoma, Salò, o las 120 jornadas de Sodoma, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, Salò, Salo - De 120 dagen van Sodoma, Salò, ou os 120 Dias de Sodoma, Сало или 120те дни на Содом, Salo: Les 120 Jours de Sodome, Salo ili 120 dana Sodome, Salò - Sodoman 120 päivää, Salò eller Sodoms 120 dagar, Salo, 120 meres sta Sodoma, 120 μέρες στα Σόδομα, Salo, avagy Szodoma 120 napja, ソドムの市, Salò o los 120 días de Sodoma, Salo eller Sodomas 120 dager, Saló, Salò, czyli 120 dni Sodomy, Salo sau cele 120 de zile ale Sodomei, Maheedhar

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Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 10

you know what they say about fascism
it ain't great
Review by jake kwiatkowski ★★★★½ 4

"Salò, and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Days of Sodom"
Review by bri 27

what level of Film Major™ do you have to reach to think this is good
Review by lauren ★★★ 11

my parents finally caved and got disney+ so obviously this was the first thing i watched
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★½ 29

Salò has lurked in the back of my mind for awhile now. Going in with the expectation of it being one of the most disturbing films of all time had me intimidated but extremely curious. What I didn’t expect was the bleak, depressing, disconnections within the film. While obviously disturbing (so much poop) I can’t say I’ve seen a film this heartless before. A film that conveys that feeling not through nauseating cinematography or haunting music but through something indescribable. I’ll be thinking about this one for awhile but not for the reasons I expected.
Review by May McNeal 7

Salo or 120 Days of Sodom is fucking hard. Like, it's a hard movie to discuss. The majority of the community of people that see it either like it because it's fucked up or hate it because it's fucked up. On the other hand, I hear the argument more times than I'd care to that this film is 'gratuitous' 'boring' and 'void of intellectual backbone.' So basically there's a large group of people dismissing the movie and saying it's stupid.
As with a lot movies that I feel really strongly towards, I guess I kinda get it. I mean, as I said in the opening of this entry, Salo is fucking hard. It's more than just a challenging movie, it's…
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 4

Rats laugh when they are tickled.
Just a happy little fact to cheer me up after that (literal) shit-fest.
Rats laugh when they are tickled.
Rats laugh when they are tickled.
Rats laugh when they are tickled.
I'm just going to keep repeating that to myself...
If there's one thing that I have to say, it's that, to me, the scariest thing about Salo is the sardonic tone with which it handles its subject matter.
The only other thing that I'll mention, because I'm cinematically exhausted, is it's interesting to me that this film, which is quite possibly the ugliest film ever made, was released in 1975, the same year as Andrei Tarkovsky's Zerkalo/The Mirror, which is quite possibly the most beautiful film ever made. Both films are masterpieces in their own right (or in this case, wrong).
Okay.
Goodnight.
I'm going to go and try to dream about some puppies.
Review by Wes ★★★★ 9

i went to my least favorite place this morning, the dentist, and i had my teeth cleaned and scraped at for an hour until they bled and after watching this i can honestly say im praying for a dentists sweet embrace right now
Review by alex todd 🧟‍♂️ ★ 14

no.
Review by Joe Jatcko ½ 28

First of all, this is all of your faults. I never would have watched this if it hadn't been brought up again and again as such an essential film for any true cinephile. Serves me right for wanting to be part of a club that would have me as a member.
But seriously, this is more of a rite of passage now than a film. The tragic history surrounding it echoes its content, so it would be unwise to dismiss its evils as disproportionate. And yet, art has the ability to be something better. By only showing evil, you are only fighting half the battle. It takes a greater courage to face it, and maintain your humanity.
Still, somehow, what…
Review by Liza ★½ 5

Donald Trump's inauguration ball
Review by Edgar Cochran ★★★★★ 25

***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.***
In the process of finding the correct first sentence to begin with a proper review of Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film Salò o le 120 Giornate di Sodoma, I failed miserably. In fact, I have already written it... it's somewhat hilarious. Words cannot and will not suffice for properly describing the artful subjectivity and political power of this extraordinary piece of art. Open-minded masses, supporter of all artistic expressions and, specifically, Pasolini fans cannot avoid the great personal amazement, pride and joy towards a director that never hesitated to express his anarchic, totalitarian and Marxist ideas through his religious and political manifestos, his daring and controversial magnum opuses, his visionary…

Recent reviews

Review by Z ★★★★½

At times a difficult watch, and some scenes seem to lose the political meaning underlying the extremity of the imagery, but overall a worthwhile engagement with de Sade’s work and exploration of the extended social dynamics of fascism.
Review by Emma Jakobsen ★★½

If you want to go on a diet and loose appetite just watch this movie.
Review by 𝔊𝔥𝔲𝔩 ★★★★

"Nothing is more anarchic than power. Power does what it wants."
Review by Vincent Vega ★★★★

one of the shittiest (literally) movies ever. don’t eat while you watch this
Review by nthrown ★★★★½

ok this was fun
Review by savannah ★★★

ok well i have a lot of thoughts. first of all i think quarantine has fully gotten to me because i willingly sat down to watch this . second of all have i truly reached filmbro where i am giving this three stars??? third i know fascism is bad and i feel like that was pretty clear. I think its reductive to just talk about the gross things i just watched so i think the commentary on society was pretty cool i mean i guess showing how far fascists and bourgeois will go for power was petty cool not gna lie however i think this might've been a little much. i mean if u watched this u should've known what you were getting urself into. and honestly i would probably need to rewatch this but not by myself. overall i think it was fine but at some parts i was obviously very grossed out.
Review by César Flores ★★★★

This time i watched it on a play and it was really interesting
Review by Marcio Roberto 2

Tenho uma amiga que reclama que faz tempo que eu não faço uma review. Isso tem uma só explicação: sou movido pela desconforto;
Por óbvio, Salò é obsceno, obscuro e pernóstico. Pasolini nada mais é do que um sociólogo impiedoso. E o filme segue integralmente um ritmo que faz qualquer intelectual marxista gozar.
Se você é da turma xamânica de Roberto Piva e Oswald de Andrade, esse é seu filme.
Eu, por exemplo, não tenho apego à escatologia. Mas, para além disso, Salò consegue atingir seu ponto cínico/crítico sem recorrer ao surrealismo, o que é uma virtude.
Mais do que mente aberta, você precisa de um estômago forte e um senso crítico um pouco mais desvirtuado para encarar esse filme.
Quanto a Pasolini, prefiro ficar com Accatone.
Review by AZinn 4

I did not think Raymond and Philip could hit a new low after choosing Music that one time.
I was wrong.
At least we watched Sideways first.
Review by Philipwright ★★½

meh
Review by Raymond Zrike ★ 1

Kinda tame.
Review by SachinthaMG ★

What a gross shit 💔