Nerolio (1998)

This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini Pasolini was best known to Americans for his film The Gospel According to St Matthew However in his native Italy he was at least as well known for his writing and poetry as for his filmmaking In the first episode Pasolini Marco Cavicchioli waxes poetic about the beauty of young men during a visit to Sicily The second and more interesting segment concerns a meeting with a young man who visits Pasolini thinking that though he is an old hasbeen Pasolini may be able to do him a favor Pasolini twigs to the boys intentions and a sparring session ensues The final episode shows him picking up a young man at Romes train station and the events that led to his beating death in 1975