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The Decameron is a 1971 sex comedy anthology film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the 14th-century collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first film of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights. Each film was an adaptation of a different piece of classical literature focusing on ribald, earthy and often irreligious themes. The tales…
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The late 1960s and early 1970s marked a golden era for adapting grand literary classics to the silver screen, exemplified by Sergey Bondarchuk’s monumental *War and Peace* (1965–1967) and Franco Zeffirelli’s lush *Romeo and Juliet* (1968). Amid this wave of ambitious adaptations, Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini sought to bring medieval literature to the forefront with his 1971 film *The Decameron*, based on Gio…More
