Abstract/Sommario: Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled to Africa, Nepal, and the Middle East to realize this ambitious cinematic treatment of a selection of stories from the legendary The Thousand and One Nights. This is not the fairy-tale world of Scheherazade or Aladdin, though. Instead, the director focuses on the book’s more erotic tales, framed by the story of a young man’s quest to reconnect with his beloved slave girl. Full of lustrous sets and costumes and stunning location photography, Arabian Nights i ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled to Africa, Nepal, and the Middle East to realize this ambitious cinematic treatment of a selection of stories from the legendary The Thousand and One Nights. This is not the fairy-tale world of Scheherazade or Aladdin, though. Instead, the director focuses on the book’s more erotic tales, framed by the story of a young man’s quest to reconnect with his beloved slave girl. Full of lustrous sets and costumes and stunning location photography, Arabian Nights is a fierce and joyous exploration of human sexuality.
Abstract/Sommario: Eight of Geoffrey Chaucer’s lusty tales come to life on-screen in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s gutsy and delirious The Canterbury Tales, which was shot in England and offers a remarkably earthy re-creation of the medieval era. From the story of a nobleman struck blind after marrying a much younger and promiscuous bride to a climactic trip to a hell populated by friars and demons (surely one of the most outrageously conceived and realized sequences ever committed to film), this is an endlessly ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Eight of Geoffrey Chaucer’s lusty tales come to life on-screen in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s gutsy and delirious The Canterbury Tales, which was shot in England and offers a remarkably earthy re-creation of the medieval era. From the story of a nobleman struck blind after marrying a much younger and promiscuous bride to a climactic trip to a hell populated by friars and demons (surely one of the most outrageously conceived and realized sequences ever committed to film), this is an endlessly imaginative work of merry blasphemy, framed by Pasolini’s portrayal of Chaucer himself.
[S.l.] : RCS Home Video ; [s.l.] : Vivivideo [distributore], c1992
Abstract/Sommario: Con "Il Decameron", Pier Paolo Pasolini firma il primo capitolo di quella che lo stesso regista definì "la trilogia della vita", che avrebbe dovuto, nelle sue intenzioni, corrispondere simmetricamente ad una "trilogia della morte" che aveva progettato, ma della quale riuscì a realizzare soltanto il primo capitolo, "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma". L'esplicito riferimento letterario, dichiarato, fin dal titolo, è il capolavoro di Giovanni Boccaccio. L'originaria ambientazione toscana ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Con "Il Decameron", Pier Paolo Pasolini firma il primo capitolo di quella che lo stesso regista definì "la trilogia della vita", che avrebbe dovuto, nelle sue intenzioni, corrispondere simmetricamente ad una "trilogia della morte" che aveva progettato, ma della quale riuscì a realizzare soltanto il primo capitolo, "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma". L'esplicito riferimento letterario, dichiarato, fin dal titolo, è il capolavoro di Giovanni Boccaccio. L'originaria ambientazione toscana viene trasferita a Napoli, ma per il resto la fedeltà allo spirito e ai contenuti erotico-popolareschi delle novelle boccaccesche viene mantenuta, colorita con dialoghi in vernacolo e sottolineata dalle musiche di Ennio Morricone.
Abstract/Sommario: Tradimenti amorosi, passioni segrete, inganni per amore, peccati di prelati e suore, astuzie che cambiano la vita, truffe che si ritorcono contro chi le ha progettate. La vitalità della narrativa di Boccaccio reinventata da Pasolini.
Abstract/Sommario: Nella Napoli medievale hanno luogo alcune vicende boccaccesche. Andreuccio da Perugia (Ninetto Davoli) viene derubato da una bella siciliana e borseggia a sua volta dei profanatori di tombe; Ser Ciappelletto (Franco Citti) muore in odor di santità a dispetto della sua vita di peccatore; un allievo di Giotto (Pier Paolo Pasolini) si appresta con qualche esitazione ad affrescare le pareti della chiesa di Santa Chiara. Orso d'Oro al Festival di Berlino (1971).
Abstract/Sommario: 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 ...; [Leggi tutto...]
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.
