Un mondo d’amore

Aurelio Grimaldi’s fascination with the poet, film maker, author and political pamphleteer Pier Paolo Pasolini was already expressed in 1996 in his widely praised homage Nerolio, a threepart portrait in black & white about Pasolini’s last year of life. In Un mondo d’amore, Grimaldi focuses on a period from the start of Pasolini’s career. The year is 1949. Pasolini is in his late twenties and teaches literature in the village of Ramuscello in Friuli. His fascination with young boys gets him into trouble: there are rumours that he has abused three underaged boys. Pasolini’s father, a war hero, is broken, the local people are indignant and the authorities want Pasolini to leave town. The Communist Party, of which he is a member, expels him. He flees with his mother to Rome. While she is forced to take a job as a housekeeper in a wealthy family, Pasolini takes his first steps in the Italian film world as an extra.Un mondo d’amore is based on true events. In clear black & white the film provides a largely poetic recreation of a mental state, resulting in a portrait of a young, sensitive and fragile artist. Un mondo d’amore was made by the ever productive and surprising Sicilian Aurelio Grimaldi, who is best known here for Le buttane. See also: Rosa Funzeca.