Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious final film, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, 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 1944 Fascist Italy remains of 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.Salò, Or the 120 Days of Sodom (Criterion Collection)