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Decameron

AKA: Il Decameron
Le Decameron

(1971)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast:

Franco Citti	........................	Ciappalletto
Ninetto Davoli	........................	Andreuccio da Perugia
Jovan Jovanovic	........................	Rustico
Vincenzo Amato	........................	Masetto La Lamporecchio
Angela Luce	........................	Peronella
Giuseppe Zigaina	........................	Frate confessore
Gabriella Frankel
Vincenzo Cristo
Pier Paolo Pasolini
(credited as P. P. Pasolini)
Giorgio Iovine
Salvatore Bilardo
Vincenzo Ferrigno
Luigi Seraponte
Antonio Diddio
Mirella Catanesi

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Synopsis: It's hard to overstate the impact this taboo-busting film had. Though somewhat tamer than Pasolini's following efforts, this was shocking in 1970, and "Decameron" became synonymous with sex in subsequent knock-off titles like Decameron proibitissimo. Franco's Eugenie was even re-released as "Decameron francese." MGM's marketing is comically timidƒ from the cover you'd think this was a Hallmark presentation.

"Sickened by empty left-wing sloganeering and by the way that hard-won sexual freedom was being commercially exploited, Pasolini's Decameron is an artistic rebellion. The first of Pasolini's colorful, entertaining and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films based on famous story cycles (to be followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights), The Decameron contains ten stories based on the fourteenth century works of Giovanni Boccaccio. Capturing the bawdy, earthy spirit of the original, the film romps through its tales of sex and death — of lusty nuns and priests, cuckolded husbands, murdered lovers and grave-robbers, with five of the stories linked by an artist, 'Giotto's pupil', played by Pasolini himself. The beauty of the naked, youthful human body, of the sexual act in all its diversity, of the Italian landscape is undercut by the ugliness of social relations in which the rich, the church, artisans, exploit each other and the poor."

Review: Massetto pretends to be a deaf mute offering work for food. Some of the nuns get the idea that they can enjoy sex with him without the risk of anyone ever finding out since he is mute. The idea catches on and soon every nun is having a go at him. Read More....

Review by James Clarke: Although I was not overly impressed with The Decameron when I first saw it theatrically fifteen years ago, seeing the film on the re-released DVD revealed it as one of Pasolini's most captivating and luminous works. Read More...

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Runtime: 112 mins.

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