it's an intriguing, startlingly restrained and even cerebral piece of work from Abel Ferrara, an unimpeachably serious homage, with an assured lead performance from Willem Dafoe -- who does look uncannily like Pasolini
casting Willem Dafoe as Pier Paolo Pasolini was a brilliant stroke. But Abel Ferrara's "Pasolini" is otherwise; the result borders on incoherence, providing few startling insights for aficionados and minimal illumination for the uninitiated
"Pasolini", Abel Ferrara's confused collage of the poet-provocateur’s final days; Presumably, to understand Pasolini is to excavate him from the twisted miasma Ferrara has created in his image
by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]
