The Decameron
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Movie Reviews of The Decameron
Movie Review: a subtle movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Pasolini was truly an aesthete and the decameron proves that.This evocation of the Middle Ages of Boccacio is very subtle.Pasolini pays homage to bruegel,his film is a dream of happiness.Movie Review: decomerone-veduto 1971
Summary: 4 Stars
saw it in italy when it first came out and surprised at how much i remembered. helluva lot more fun than reading.Movie Review: An entertaining tour through mediaeval Italy
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the first film in Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" (the others being "The Canterbury Tales" and "Arabian Nights"). It contains eight tales from Boccaccio's mediaeval work, filmed with Pasolini's usual mixture of realism and visual beauty. The natural locations used here also give a lift to these stories combining love, lust, deception, murder, and religion.As is common in his films, Pasolini has used a combination of non-professional actors and regulars, including Franco Citti in the 'false saint' story, and Ninetto Davoli as a man whose luck goes through several reverses before he comes out on top. Pasolini himself also appears as the mediaeval painter Giotto.
"The Decameron" is quite bawdy, although it never reaches the heights scaled by "The Canterbury Tales" in this department. On the plus side, however, it's in the original Italian (with English subtitles), so it doesn't suffer from the poor dubbing that afflicts "The Tales".
"The Decameron is weakened a bit by the disjointed editing. I'm not sure whether the original film was like that, or if this version used for the DVD was chopped about in some way. Even so, it's an entertaining film with varied stories and a nice period atmosphere.
Movie Review: not in English... subtitles only...
Summary: 3 Stars
I am too lazy to read subtitles... Also this is NOT The Decameron... it is merely a few selected stories from the book. The back story isn't there which is a shame. I do like it though, but I have to watch it several times to get the whole thing since I am reading the whole time!Movie Review: Not as good as I expected
Summary: 3 Stars
Pasolini did a good job exploring the way people lived in the medieval Italy, but the drama was boring for me during most of the film.