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Arabian Nights

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Arabian Nights (1974)

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Average Rating:7.1/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Exotic spectacle and unbridled sensuality collide in Pier Paolo Pasolini's dreamlike retelling of the Arabian fable. In this lush adaptation, a prince goes abroad in search of his beloved slave,... Exotic spectacle and unbridled sensuality collide in Pier Paolo Pasolini's dreamlike retelling of the Arabian fable. In this lush adaptation, a prince goes abroad in search of his beloved slave, whom someone has kidnapped. As he travels from land to land, he listens to erotic tales told by the people he meets--and though the stories entice him, he never can forget the lover he hopes to find again. The film--shot on location in Yemen, Ethiopia, Iran, and Nepal--is the final chapter in Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" series that includes THE DECAMERON and THE CANTERBURY TALES. [More]

Starring: Ninetto Davoli, Ines Pellegrini, Franco Citti, Tesse Bouche

Starring: Ninetto Davoli, Ines Pellegrini, Franco Citti, Tesse Bouche, Franco Merli, Margaret Clemente, Jocelyne Munchenback, Alberto Argentino, Christian Aligny, Salvatore Sapienza, Jeanne Gauffin Matthieu, Francelise Noel

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Screenwriter: Pier Paolo Pasolini

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A lyrical celebration of polymorphous sexuality.

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A typical puzzlement from Pasolini, a major figure who never made a major film.

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The final film of the Trilogy of Life further develops Pasolini’s notions of the relationship of narrative to an idealized medieval world.

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Mildly erotic, slightly deranged, and beautifully entertaining, this is one of the Italian director's finest works.

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Pasolini's Arabian Nights succeeds mostly because it never assumes neither frank carnality nor flights of fancy are beneath us.

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