Those with gentle sensibilities and who regard nuns as sacred should avoid this film.
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06/05/09
The Decameron (1970)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:10
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Pasolini wrote, directed and stars in this richly textured epic based on eight tales by 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio. Pasolini weaves the stories together into a bawdy tapestry of... [More]
Starring: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Silvana Mangano, M. Gabriella Frankel
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Reviews for The Decameron
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No review available.
03/12/08
Pasolini departed further from the spare Neorealism of his early career and hit upon a formula that won him unanticipated commercial success.
10/23/07
The sight of the endless assembly of seemingly toothless proles Pasolini picked up as extras can be a bit intimidating.
01/26/06
No review available.
07/23/05
Marvelous.
05/09/05
Top CriticPasolini questions his own dream, his idealization of this beautiful, bucolic world he has created in which peasant and artist and the Virgin Mary coexist in divine harmony.
04/20/04
down to earth indictment of human folly well worth checking out
08/05/03
It's par for the course with this kind of film that it doesn't all work, but it's continually fascinating.
05/24/03
No review available.
07/26/02
Working with an Italian classic, he seems less inclined to transform his material, though what emerges is entertaining, if only in a mild way.
01/01/00
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