Abel Ferrara&rsquos new film Pasolini has picked up an Italian distributor, the Rome-based Europictures. The company was smitten on the film after seeing only a short promo in Cannes. Pasolini, clocking in at 86 minutes, is Ferrara&rsquos look at the controversial Italian director and writer&rsquos last day on earth: Nov. 2, 1975.

Ferrara&rsquos frequent collaborator Willem Dafoe stars as Pier Paolo Pasolini alongside Riccardo Scamarcio, Ninetto Davoli, Valerio Mastandrea, Maria de Medeiros, and Adriana Asti. The film weaves the events of his last day with scenes Ferrara shot from Pasolini&rsquos last projects, the unfinished manuscript Petrolio and the screenplay Porno-Teo-Kolossal.

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