Salò contains numerous extremely upsetting scenes of violence, including sexual violence. Here are some links to help you decide whether seeing the film is right for you:

https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2013/cteq/salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/22/pasolini-salo-abel-ferrara-catherine-breillat
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/parentalguide/

Four fascists round up a group of teenagers and subject them to physical and sexual torture in Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious final film.

Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, made in the 1960s, had celebrated sexuality as a liberatory force. But by the mid 1970s, Pasolini - a committed though unorthodox Marxist - had become increasingly pessimistic about the possibility of emancipatory politics within capitalism.

Salò was the result. Aiming to confronts his viewers with the brutal logic of capitalist power relations, he transposed the Marquis de Sade's infamous 18th century novel to Italy's wartime fascist regime, the Republic of Salò. 

50 years after its release, Salò's vision of the circles of hell existing on earth is, tragically, still relevant.

The making of Salò is explored in Olivia Laing's The Silver Book. Olivia will be at the Cube on Wednesday 17th to discuss the book, followed by a screening of Fellini's Casanova, the making of which is also featured in The Silver Book. Tickets available here. 

"Salo is a beautiful film. It uses obscenity in an intelligent way, and it's about the pornography of power." - John Waters

“The whole film, with its monstrous, almost unspeakable atrocities, is offered as a huge Sadian metaphor for the Nazi/Fascists' ‘detachment’ in their ‘crimes against humanity.’”  - Pier Paolo Pasolini

Doors open 30 minutes before advertised start time. All film screenings are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with no more than a 10 min selection of trailers. 

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