The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini, SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, and pornographic… It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in. – Criterion Collection