Movie Reviews for The Decameron

The Decameron

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Movie Reviews of The Decameron

Movie Review: like wine, like cheese, this film aged well
Summary: 5 Stars

I discovered the Decameron as a teenager reading the Ribald Tales in Playboy magazine. They followed the centerfold, and decades later I remember them long after my memory of the playmates whose lip gloss matched the soap and towels faded. It led me to the book and to the film which I rediscovered in 2005 (on DVD). The actors are real Neopolitans, the background music comes from Alan Lomax's 1950s field recording of Italian folk music, and the staging and performances are guileless; full of joy, irony, and life. I have watched it many times, and show chapters to my classes at UCLA. The deaf mute in the convent paralels an episode from the tales of the Tibetan trickster, Uncle Thangba. The teen lovers on the cover are the greatest love story ever told, from the moment she asks for her first kiss and he says- lets do it first; until her parents come upon the sleeping lovers, his penis in her hand, and decide it is a good marriage match. This is a movie/DVD to cherish.

Movie Review: Funny, earthy, good adaptation
Summary: 5 Stars

Irony, satire, ribald humor. good medieval earthy Italian peasant, church folk, nobility caricatures of getting one over on the next guy. Lots of twist backs.
Modern day: Roald Dahl (no n)
The stories don't segue, they just start and end.
Blunt, upfront, in your face tales of human nature that has survived the centuries since the book was first written during the time of the plague.

Lots of sexual innuendos, body parts shown so not recommended for kids. Or for the up-tight.

The book is terrific, short tales, 100 of them, that can be spread over days so as not to overdose. turn it off, do something else, watch over several nights.

Really terrific makeup gives a glimmer of dental health back in those days.

Movie Review: Folk Tale from another Era
Summary: 5 Stars

What a great film! So much joy in it. These nine stories are bawdy, funny, sad, and even profound. It's like watching a film from another, pre-cinema era. Like folk tales from several centuries ago captured somehow on film and left behind so we could experience their world through it. The camera wobbles, the editing is abrupt, the acting is direct and innocent. What a treat it all is! A gift to us, with great love, as if a child made it.

Movie Review: the decameron
Summary: 5 Stars

what can you say about pasolini. he was either a genius or a complete madman when it comes to his films. i for one think he was a genius, ahead
of him time. as wtih salo/120days the film is disjointed to the point that it doen't alway make sense, but i love this mans work anyway.