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    The Decameron

    R1971 · Comedy drama · 1h 47m

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  1. The Decameron (Italian: Il Decameron) is a 1971 medieval erotic black comedy 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. Each film was an adaptation of a ...

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  3. The Decameron. Watch The Decameron with a subscription on Prime Video. A series of stories revolves around an aspiring painter (Franco Citti), nuns, a gardener, a priest and a husband.

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    • Pier Paolo Pasolini
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    • Franco Citti
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  5. Synopsis. An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their ...

  6. The Decameron. Pier Paolo Pasolini weaves together a handful of Giovanni Boccaccios 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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  7. Overview. A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a ...

  8. Dec 12, 1971 · The film, based on the sexually supercharged tales of Boccaccio, is a patchwork of many of Pasolini's favorite themes. Pasolini himself plays the role of an aspiring fresco painter who is advised that his completed work will never be as satisfying as his dream of that work.

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