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Pier Paolo Pasolini weaves together a handful of Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century moral tales in this picturesque free-for-all. The Decameron explores the delectations and dark corners of an earlier and, as the filmmaker saw it, less compromised time.
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Nov 13, 2012 · In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom) brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of premodern world literature—Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (often known as The Arabian ...
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The Decameron (Italian: Il Decameron) is a 1971 anthology film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the 14th-century allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first film of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights.
Nov 19, 2012 · This vivacious detour by Pier Paolo Pasolini makes for an interesting, albeit tragically brief, third act in an accomplished film career. Trilogy of Life is an anthology of anthologies, three movies based on famous collections of stories from classic literature: Boccaccio's The Decameron , Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales , and the more mystical ...
Dec 6, 2012 · Criterion presents Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life in a brand new Blu-ray box set. The set includes The Decameron , The Canterbury Tales , and Arabian Nights . Each film is presented on its own dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
Nov 21, 2012 · The title of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” at first feels like a misnomer. Adapting a choice selection of medieval Eurasian parables and myths by way of three canonical source texts, the films present an entourage of goonish characters who, through simple actions that produce equally simply reactions, stumble into prurience ...
Apr 9, 2017 · Trilogy of Life (1971-74) The Criterion Collection | Blu-ray Digipack Unboxing | Pier Paolo Pasolini. [SHOWCASING] Trilogy of Life Includes: - The Decameron (1971) Spine #632 - The Canterbury ...