Pasolini decameron giotto biography

Pasolini’s ‘Decameron’ forms the first part of his ‘Trilogy of Life’, a series of films that continues with adaptations of two other seminal story cycles: ‘The Canterbury Tales’ (1972) and the ‘Arabian Nights’ (1974). In choosing to adapt these works Pasolini is returning to the foundations of popular culture and consolidating his reputation as a filmmaker of the radical left. Despite the patina of dusty academic respectability that these stories have accrued they are rooted in the story-telling traditions of pre-literate cultures. For Pasolini they represent ‘the voice of the people’ in its purest form

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