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The dramatic and scandalous life of the variously renowned and reviled poet screenwriter and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini 19221975 is reportedly poorly served in this highly allegorical and intellectual film which focuses rather more on his poetic and intellectual contributions to Italian Marxism than anyone except a highly intellectual Italian Marxist could possibly want to know This is hardly surprising given that the neophyte director of this film has a day job as an assistant professor of the sociology of conscience Pasolini who at one point was convicted of the crime of offending the religion of the Italian state Catholicism later received the Grand Prize from the Catholic Film Office for his straightforward and stunning film of Il Vangelo Secundo Matteo The Gospel According to St Matthew