A film made by actress Laura Betti that gathers many repertoire images kept for years by the Pasolini Fund. However, it is far more than a documentary because it represents an unhealed wound that the director's dearest friend has yet to succeed in explaining.

She renders homage to him with this film, reconstructing his image, his philosophy, his works, his politics but especially the man. And she does so with the most representative parts of the film, using old interviews, the words of his most intimate films such as Paolo Volponi or Bernardo Bertolucci and parts of his most famous films.

We see the director's face as he tells of himself revealing his conflicting relationship with his father and his admiration for his partisan brother, lost in war. Pasolini's tired face takes us through his farmer world in Casarsa della Delizia through the Friuli valleys and he introduces us to his idea of cinema and his thoughts about the world.

With these beautiful black and white images recovered from the archives, Laura Betti tells a piece of Italian 60's and 70's history, form student protests to workers movements, until Pasolini's lucid forecasts on the damage globalisation would have caused.

"Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno" is rational and touching homage to one of the greatest post war intellects.

October.2001