The Decameron

The first film in Pasolini’s popular ‘Trilogy of Life’, The Decameron is a wildly entertaining erotic adaptation of nine stories from Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century moral tales, transposed to Naples. Weaving together the stories of an aspiring painter (Franco Citti), nuns, a gardener, a priest and a husband, Pasolini explores the delectations and dark corners of an earlier time in this picturesque free-for-all.