The Ploy

2016
6.3| 1h40m| en
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In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death.

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Also starring Matteo Taranto

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Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Staci Frederick Blistering performances.
Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Giuseppe De Rossi In my opinion this film is very interesting in order to understand the 70's Italian decade and to understand Pasolini's murderer. I think that this film is well played: I appreciate the work of every actor. Matteo Taranto and his quotation of Gian Maria Volonté impressed me a lot: I think that the remind to the film "Indagine di un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto" is precious. It's great that the director makes you observe the situation and then make you understand that you have all the elements to put together the potential truth. Some scenes are very touching and sensitive and are well constructed, especially the final sequence. Great film, highly recommended!
professoressaita I usually talk about Pasolini with my students as a teacher and when I've known David Grieco and his movie "La Macchinazione" I immediately bought his book edit by Rizzoli and invited my students to watch the film. So we had passionate discussions about Pasolini's death: the film gave us a valid interpretative perspective supported both by meticulous documentary research and by sources of direct information. Many thanks from us to David Grieco: his well structured film has a high formal and expressive level. It helps to reflect on a complex and delicate matter and it makes us more aware about the facts of which Pasolini was the protagonist and victim.
Lucia Gianeselli I was a little girl when Pasolini was murdered and when the news was spread by the newscast, my mother said: "It's impossible! Someone have killed him, they never could convince me that things went so". After forty years this film reveals the true sequence of the events and people who killed Pasolini. I appreciate David Grieco's honest approach. It seems to me that the director's effort is to give us the opportunity to understand the real questions behind Pasolini's murder and set us free to highlight this facts. David Grieco collected a lot of evidence in a sensitive way which I have appreciated in the choose of the sound track, in the photography and in the mounting of the film. Massimo Ranieri as Pasolini is really great with a degree of expressive intensity typical of a genuine talent. I appreciate also the young Alessandro Sardelli (Pino Pelosi) and the sophisticated and very elegant interpretation of Milena Vukotic (Susanna Colussi) and also the realistic and persuasive Tony Laudiadio as the Lawyer. The entire cast expresses an excellent performance.
guidoviviani This film has deeply impressed me. I have never been so sad after seeing a movie. I had tears in my eyes after the last scene and a strong sense of hardship. David Grieco, many thanks for the courage. The actors are all very good, especially the protagonist. I understood many things, and I knew better the story of Pasolini. Incredible how important is this intellectual, this man who cared about understanding his time. I think we have a great opportunity to understand our time too through this film. The scene that struck me mostly is the one in which Pasolini releases an interview with a French journalist. I also appreciate the next one, in which Pasolini has the vision of our digital age, I think that both scenes are very representative of our condition.