Il Decameron The Decameron Pier Paolo Pasolini [videorecording]=

By:

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Italian Summary language: English Original language: Italian Subtitle language: English Series: Trilogia della vita ; Vol. 1 | The Criterion Collection ; Vol. 632Publication details: Italy Produzioni Europee Associate Les Productions Artistes Associés Artemis Film 1971Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inOther title:

The Decameron

Uniform titles:

The Decameron

LOC classification:

PN1997 .D433 1971

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-A: DVD Cabinet A	PN1997 .D433 1971	Available		001507
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-A: DVD Cabinet A	PN1997 .D433 1971	Available		000647

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.

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