Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was an influential Italian director, writer, and intellectual. His filmmaking career, which began in the 1960s, is marked by a profound social commitment and constant provocation.

He explored the world of the Roman sub-proletariat with works such as *Accattone* and *Mamma Roma*, characterized by a raw Neorealist style. He then moved on to religious themes (*The Gospel According to St. Matthew*) and mythological ones (*Oedipus Rex*, *Medea*), reinterpreting them with his secular and critical vision. The *Trilogy of Life* (*The Decameron*, *The Canterbury Tales*, *Arabian Nights*) celebrated pre-industrial corporeality and sexuality.

His cinema was profoundly intellectual, poetic, and often controversial, questioning the values of modern society and the commodification of the human being. It culminated with *Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom*, a disturbing and brutal denunciation of power and consumerism. Pasolini remains a central figure for his stylistic audacity and his incisive social analysis.