![]() The girl tells her parents that she is going there to listen to the song of the nightingale. But my favourites are the young couple who have a naked lovers' tryst on a rooftop. Although some suffer embarrassing discomfort (the buffoon who falls up to his neck into a privy), most have a highly enjoyable old time the young convent gardener for instance who, feigning deaf and dumbness, has it off with a procession of nuns, who in turn register the joy of having witnessed "a miracle" when he eventually decides to speak. What I like most about the film is the sheer happiness of so many of the characters. Stories start and end abruptly, as if, having milked a tale of its naughtiness, the director is anxious to get on with another without the delay of a preamble. The subject matter is of course very different, but what fun it all is! "The Decameron" is, to my mind, the most original of the three. ![]() Thus the ancient buildings and open landscapes often teem with crowds of people. They are conceived very much in the same vein as the earlier "Gospel According to Saint Matthew" with the accent on realism rather than stylisation. During the years immediately preceding the spellbinding horrors of his swansong "Salo", Pasolini created a trilogy of bawdy romps based on "The Decameron", "The Canterbury Tales" and "The Arabian Nights". ![]()
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