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Il Decameron
| Date: Thursday, 30th October 2008 | ||
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Venue: Hyde Park Picture House Time: 10:30pm | ||
Il Decameron is Pier Paolo Pasolini's elegant literary adaptation of Bocaccio's masterwork which he grouped together under the title of the "Trilogy of Life" and which he would originally characterise as his most "non-political" film. The second and third instalments (The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights) will follow on the 1st and 2nd Nov.
Lavish in its costumes and settings and splendidly-photographed, with non-professional actors, as in the borgate days, for their stunningly-expressive faces and powerful screen presences, this was a thoroughly "consumable" film and in fact provided Pasolini with his greatest ever commercial success. Later on, contrary as ever, Pasolini would suggest that, in another way, this was his "most political" film, the politics here being not ideological but sexual, there in the erotic, sexually-energised human body which was being everywhere celebrated in these films and which Pasolini claimed was the only site to have yet escaped domination by consumer capitalism.
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1971
Duration: 111mins
Starring: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovich
Dubbed into English
SHORT FILM
Yellow Fever
dir: Frédérick Maheux, 2008, Canada, 6min
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