Pasolini

...as interested in the curiously calm domestic life of its protagonist [...] as in his fantasies and excesses...

...an intriguing, startlingly restrained and even cerebral piece of work from Ferrara, an unimpeachably serious homage, with an assured lead performance from Willem Dafoe...

There's something refreshing about this approach, a conscious refusal to play by the iconographic rules that make biographical features such unwitting self-parodies.