An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
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Jovan Jovanovic
- Rustico
- (scenes deleted)
Maria Gabriella Maione
- Una madonna
- (as Gabriella Frankel)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Allievo di Giotto
- (as P.P. Pasolini)
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- TriviaThe Decameron (1971) is the first film in Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life," continuing with The Canterbury Tales (1972) and concluding with Arabian Nights (1974). Each film was an adaptation of a different piece of classical literature focusing on ribald and often irreligious themes. The tales contain abundant nudity, sex, slapstick and scatological humor.
- GoofsWhen the Mother Superior seduces the deaf-mute boy, he's sleeping in a tomato garden. Tomatoes are a New World crop that wouldn't be brought to Italy for another two centuries.
- Quotes
Allievo di Giotto: Why create a work of art when dreaming about it is so much sweeter?
- Alternate versionsAlthough the cinema version was intact the 1988 UK Warner video was cut by 22 secs by the BBFC to remove shots of naked genitals during the bedroom sex scene with the nun. The cuts were fully restored in the 2001 BFI DVD release.
- ConnectionsEdited into Porn to Be Free (2016)
- SoundtracksFenesta Ca Lucive
Written by Guglielmo Cottrau, Vincenzo Bellini and Giulio Genoino in 1842
Performed by Franco Citti
Sung by Ser Ciappelletto and his Neapolitan hosts in Germany. Also sung by one of the Neapolitans to a monk.
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The first part of the trilogy of life.
After adapting "Gospel according to Saint-Matthews" as no one had done before (and after ) him ,in a drastically anti-Hollywood style ("greatest story ever told" and the Italian's opus are worlds apart),Pasolini brushed away the cobwebs from Greek myths such as "Oedipe" and "Medea".Then he began his trilogy of life which would also encompass "the Canterbury tales" and "fiore della mille e una notte".
"Il decameron" is the first and it created the surprise in 1971:no one had been as bawdy as Pasolini at the time (and I wonder if someone had since).This is a movie made up of little sketches ,all adapted from
Boccacio and they respect the original stories (notably the" nightingale" segment)Probably the funniest of the trilogy,and the happiest -both "Canterbury" and "mille e una" feature some dark scenes :a gay is burned alive in the former,an adolescent's murdered in the latter.
That said,"Il decameron" and the two other parts are not for all tastes:bawdiness,vulgarity and scatology may repel some.
"Il decameron" is the first and it created the surprise in 1971:no one had been as bawdy as Pasolini at the time (and I wonder if someone had since).This is a movie made up of little sketches ,all adapted from
Boccacio and they respect the original stories (notably the" nightingale" segment)Probably the funniest of the trilogy,and the happiest -both "Canterbury" and "mille e una" feature some dark scenes :a gay is burned alive in the former,an adolescent's murdered in the latter.
That said,"Il decameron" and the two other parts are not for all tastes:bawdiness,vulgarity and scatology may repel some.
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- Sep 3, 2003
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- Decameron
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- $839
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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