Il Decameron
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Il Decameron The Decameron [videorecording]= The Decameron Pier Paolo Pasolini - Italy Produzioni Europee Associate Les Productions Artistes Associés Artemis Film 1971 - 1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 in. - Trilogia della vita Vol. 1 The Criterion Collection Vol. 632 .
Based on the 14th-century novellas collection "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio. Also contains:
- Documentary "Il corpo perduto di Alibech" (2005) by Roberto Chiesi.
From case cover:
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. Among the chief delights are a young man's exploits with a gang of grave robbers, a flock of randy nuns who sin with a strapping gardener, and Pasolini's appearance as a pupil of the painter Giotto, at work on a massive fresco. One of the director's most popular films, "The Decameron," transposed to Naples from Boccaccio's Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Region 1; 16:9 widescreen.
Italian audio. Optional English subtitles.
PN1997 / .D433 1971
Il Decameron The Decameron [videorecording]= The Decameron Pier Paolo Pasolini - Italy Produzioni Europee Associate Les Productions Artistes Associés Artemis Film 1971 - 1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 in. - Trilogia della vita Vol. 1 The Criterion Collection Vol. 632 .
Based on the 14th-century novellas collection "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio. Also contains:
- Documentary "Il corpo perduto di Alibech" (2005) by Roberto Chiesi.
From case cover:
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. Among the chief delights are a young man's exploits with a gang of grave robbers, a flock of randy nuns who sin with a strapping gardener, and Pasolini's appearance as a pupil of the painter Giotto, at work on a massive fresco. One of the director's most popular films, "The Decameron," transposed to Naples from Boccaccio's Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Region 1; 16:9 widescreen.
Italian audio. Optional English subtitles.
PN1997 / .D433 1971