30 October 2002
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy
1971
111 min
This is the first of Pasolini’s ‘Trilogy of Life’ films, the others being The Canterbury Tales (1971) and The Arabian Nights (1974). He wrote and directed this richly textured epic based on eight sexually charged tales from the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio. Pasolini plays the great pre-renaissance painter Giotto in a role that links together the colourful, erotic and humorous tapestry of the stories of a medieval Italy populated by artists, priests and magicians. In Italian with English subtitles.