He was not a saint, though they tried to martyr him. He was not a prophet, though his films now feel like prophecy. Pier Paolo Pasolini exists at a rupture point in cinema history – a filmmaker who could not be claimed by the left, the church, the avant-garde, or even the queer movement that would later invoke his name.
Source: From Gospel to Grotesque: The Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini – Bright Lights Film Journal