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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Il Decameron 7 January 06
Section: pasolini
Categories: Film / in-a-cinema
In college I had a couple of semesters of medieval and renaissance literature with a professor whose lectures were engaging. Reading Boccaccio’s Decameron, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel opened my eyes to our humanness, to some thread of continuity of our needs and desires, connecting us to our predecessors over the thousands of years, and at the same time that many things we take for granted — romantic love, for example — were social inventions serving particular needs of a society in development, and that these things change.
- Title: Il Decameron
- Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Writing credits: Giovanni Boccaccio (original novel), Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Starring: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic, Vincenzo Amato, Angela Luce, Giuseppe Zigaina, Gabriella Frankel, Vincenzo Cristo, Pier Paolo Pasolini (As Giotto), Giorgio Iovine, Salvatore Bilardo, Vincenzo Ferrigno, Luigi Seraponte, Antonio Diddio, Mirel
- Year: 1971
- Cinema: deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt