The Decameron

Metrograph 7 Ludlow Street, New York

Metrograph presents Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron, a vibrant and irreverent adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio's fourteenth-century literary classic. The first installment in Pasolini's celebrated "Trilogy of Life," the film marked a significant departure from the director's darker and more overtly political works of the late 1960s, embracing humor, sensuality, and...