Sabaudia

Sabaudia in Italy created by Mussolinis architects as a model new fascist city was supplied with extensive farm lands converted from marshes Yet despite its undeniably brutal architecture creators including Alberto Moravia and Pier Paolo Pasolini subsequently found Sabaudia to be a wonderful hospitable place the sign of a genuine traditional Italy and its resistance to all modern ideologies Lotte Schreiber constructs a multifaceted documentary view of Sabaudia inspired by but going beyond Pasolini portraying it as a paradoxical mixture of social class separation nostalgia and everyday whimsy Adrian Martin