The Decameron with Le mura di Sana’a (The Walls of Sana’a)
The Decameron with Le mura di Sana’a (The Walls of Sana’a)
The first installment in Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life, The Decameron revels in the pleasures of the flesh as the writer-director transforms several 14th-century moral tales by Giovanni Boccaccio into a bawdy riot of bodies
The first installment in Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life, The Decameron revels in the pleasures of the flesh as the writer-director transforms several 14th-century moral tales by Giovanni Boccaccio into a bawdy riot of bodies. Pasolini himself makes a rare appearance as a pupil to the painter Giotto at work on a formidable fresco.
Also screening is a ravishing portrait of the Yemenese capital of Sana’a shot while Pasolini was filming The Decameron.
The Decameron
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cast: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic, Vincenzo Amato. 1971. 111 min. Italy/France/West Germany. Color. Italian. 35mm. Print from Cinecittà.
Le mura di Sana’a
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 1971. 13 min. Italy. Color. Italian. 35mm. Print from Cinecittà.
Courtesy of Minerva Pictures.
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