Walk Me Home (1963)
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Timothy Neat
151 minutes
**La rabbia di Pasolini** **Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Italy, 1963, 35mm, 53m** **Italian with English subtitles** In 1962, the Italian producer Gastone Ferranti commissioned Pier Paolo Pasolini to make a newsreel using his archives from 1945–62. Pasolini’s film, a furious screed against the Western bourgeois world and its hunger for war, was feared by the producers as controversial, so they invited a right-wing journalist, Giovanni Guareschi, to make a second part, which would be combined with a cut-down version of Pasolini’s work and presented as one film. Pasolini disowned the resulting movie. In 2008, Giuseppe Bertolucci and the Cineteca di Bologna reconstructed Pasolini’s version of the film using the filmmaker’s shot list, dialogue transcript, and notes on music. The reconstruction only distills even further what John Berger wrote upon discovering the film in 2006: “ _La Rabbia_, I would say, is a film inspired by a fierce sense of endurance, not anger. Pasolini looks at what is happening in the world with unflinching lucidity. (There are angels drawn by Rembrandt who have the same gaze). And he does so because reality is all we have to love. There’s nothing el