ppp text by MEHDI BELHAJ KACEM When I heard that Abel Ferrara was working on a film about Pier Paolo Pasolini, I played the usual guessing game with my friends. Who would be playing the title role? It came to me after a few moments’ thought: Willem Dafoe! A magnificent actor (as Lars von Trier, one of the great actors’ directors in the world today, hasn’t failed to notice), though all too often relegated to splendid supporting parts (Bobby Peru in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, gas-station owner Gas in David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ, etc). Since he is also something of a Ferrara regular, Dafoe just seemed the natural choice. The striking thing about Pier Paolo Pasolini (PPP) was the contrast between his rather unblemished appearance and the violence of his poetic and cinematic oeuvre (not to mention the contrast between the “superb, flat voice,” as Lacoue-Labarthe wrote, and the relentless…