Perrone’s devotion to Pasolini has always been explicit. In Corsario, he goes as far as to reincarnate the Italian director in the role of a lookalike who, along with an assistant, holds a casting session in which the candidates have to recite a Dylan Thomas poem. He then walks through Perrone’s mythical city trying to pick up young men, at times accompanied by a poem of Verlaine read aloud by an unseen figure. Almost always in black and white, though with some color sequences (gathering beautiful flowers, shapes in the sky, compositions of tableaus reminiscent of Caravaggio), the mysterious texture of the film is created by the use of a pinhole camera. RK
International Premiere
