Intellectual
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art (represented by scenes from his films, his novel-in-progress Petrolio, and his projected film Porno-Teo-Kolossal) are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.
Writer
It’s a story of a brother and a sister, Sergio and Maria, told backward in time, from adulthood to childhood. Through the years the two siblings invent a game that they call “Mìkles”: their very own survival technique used to resist the abuse brought upon them by their father and, at the same time…