WATCH The Decameron (1970) dir. Pasolini // You can watch the film here (dubbed in English) https://archive.org/details/pasolini_trilogy_of_life/Il+Decameron+1971+>BDRip+1080p+DD-2.0+ENG+ITA-HighCode/Il+Decameron+1971+BDRip+1080p+DD-2.0+ENG+ITA-HighCode.mkv https://www.artforum.com/film/andreas-petrossiants-on-pasolini-s-the-decameron-83588 Watch Pier Pasolini’s The Decameron. In anticipation of readers’ and critics’ objections to The Decameron’s “objectionable content,” Giovanni Boccaccio reminds readers that the “stories were not told in a church” or “rehearsed either in the schools of philosophy where decency is required.” The stories instead “were told in gardens, places designed for pleasure, among people who were young.” How do you read this statement from Boccaccio with Pasolini’s adaptation of The Decameron? Does Pasolini’s depiction of sex remain faithful to the stories we read in this module? (Note: Pasolini said that he tried to depict sex that had not yet been overtaken by “consumerist power.”) Why do you think Pasolini selected these stories to adapt over the other tales in The Decameron? Why do you think he abandons the frame story of the storytellers?
