“Many of the older folks here, the ragazzi of the time who are now in their 70s and 80s, remember him,” said Enzo De Camillis, the documentary’s director, who was born in one of the skyscrapers.
A movie set designer by trade, Mr. De Camillis also designed one of the numerous plaques that track Pasolini’s life in the neighborhood.
“His Monteverde years were very important, his presence radiated culture around him,” said Nina Quarenghi, a historian and teacher who has written an authoritative book about Monteverde in the 20th century, which she described as a mishmash of high and low culture. “You can still breathe this air,” she said.
Pasolini eventually moved with his mother to a more genteel section of Monteverde, into the same building on Via Carini as the poet Attilio Bertolucci, father to two directors — Giuseppe, who died in 2012, and Bernardo.
In 1963, Pasolini moved to EUR, at the time one of Rome’s newest residential neighborhoods, where he lived until his death, at the age of 53.
Last summer, Giuseppe Pelosi, who was convicted of murdering Pasolini, died at age 59. He initially confessed to killing Pasolini, because of an unwanted sexual approach, he said. But later — in one of several, ever-changing stories — he said that at least six other people were present at the scene.
Several requests to reopen the case have been shelved, but suspicions of cover-ups have never been quelled.
In Monteverde, meantime, Mr. Parrello continues to fan the Pasolini flame.
“Maybe I am a bit prejudiced, so I exaggerate, but I think that after Dante, Italy gave the world Pasolini,” he said. “He explored all the Rome neighborhoods, but unlike other intellectuals, who observe from afar, he was inside, he lived the life.”
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