The first film in Pasolini’s popular ‘Trilogy of Life’, The Decameron is a wildly entertaining erotic adaptation of nine stories from Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century moral tales, transposed to Naples. Weaving together the stories of an aspiring painter (Franco Citti), nuns, a gardener, a priest and a husband, Pasolini explores the delectations and dark corners of an earlier time in this picturesque free-for-all.
WINNER – Special Jury Prize, Berlin International Film Festival 1971
NOMINEE – Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival 1971
NOMINEE – Best Cinematography, Nastri d’Argento Awards 1972
OFFICIAL SELECTION – New York Film Festival 1971
"Marvelous."
- New York Times
Tuesday 13th September
111 min
R18+
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Film Festival
Italian, Neapolitan, German, Latin with English subtitles
Palace Raine Square
