In 1975, the controversial auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered, smashed by a metal bar, set alight and run over repeatedly by his own car at a beach outside Rome. A young gigolo was arrested and apparently confessed to the crime, but in the forty years since, blame has been apportioned across the social spectrum – from Pasolini's political enemies and ex-lovers to those who hated his sublime films defying the conservative sexual and ideological morays of his…
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