Who Killed Pasolini? (1995) review

Dramatic recreation of the still-controversial arrest and trial of Giuseppe Pelosi (Carlo De Filippi), who was accused of murdering one of the greatest Italian poets of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and then stealing his Alfa Romeo, even though there's evidence that he didn't act alone.  The majority of this comes across like a sluggish TV movie-of-the-week - with archival black-and-white footage of the actual Pasolini and his friends (accompanied by sappy violins) - and Pelosi's a repugnant seventeen-year-old who shows zero remorse for his actions, although it leaves no doubt the prominent writer/director/painter had accrued a number of enemies with his radical views (he was working on a novel about corruptive influences in his country at the time of his death).  John Waters has suggested Pier Paolo just had a "bad night," but most "bad nights" typically don't end with a man having his testicles smashed and being run over by his own car.  Recently, investigators re-opened the case and it's (currently) suspected that the far-right criminal organization Banda della Magliana might have been involved: hopefully this will eventually be resolved, and the maestro can rest easy.