The Decameron
1971, R, 112 min.
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Starring Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli.

Pasolini’s adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s Decameron is the first film in his “Trilogy of Life,” which continues with The Canterbury Tales and concludes with The Arabian Nights. Even though The Decameron catches Pasolini at his most classical, the film still crackles with the filmmaker’s signature naturalism, anticlericalism, and lustiness. Pasolini also plays a role as the painter Giotto, who links the stories together.

This article appears in July 8 • 2005.

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