{"id":464,"date":"2013-03-10T22:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T02:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/blog\/?page_id=464"},"modified":"2020-12-07T03:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:30:40","slug":"pasolinis-trilogy-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/?page_id=464","title":{"rendered":"Pasolini&#8217;s Trilogy of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a title=\"Ed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.discdish.com\/index.php\/author\/ed\/\">By ED <\/a>\u2013\u00a0<abbr title=\"2012-11-21T14:22:13+00:00\">11\/21\/2012 <\/abbr><strong>FIND OTHERS:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discdish.com\/index.php\/category\/dvd\/\">DVD<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discdish.com\/index.php\/category\/movie\/\">MOVIE<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discdish.com\/index.php\/category\/review\/\">REVIEW <\/a><strong>GET MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discdish.com\/index.php\/tag\/comedy\/\" rel=\"tag\">COMEDY<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discdish.com\/index.php\/tag\/criterion\/\" rel=\"tag\">CRITERION<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discdish.com\/index.php\/tag\/drama\/\" rel=\"tag\">DRAMA<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discdish.com\/index.php\/tag\/erotica\/\" rel=\"tag\">EROTICA<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>STUDIO:<\/strong>\u00a0Criterion\u00a0<strong>| DIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Pier Paolo Pasolini\u00a0<strong>| STARS:<\/strong>\u00a0Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Hugh Griffith, Tom Baker, Jenny Runacre, Ines Pellegrini<br \/>\n<strong>RELEASE DATE:<\/strong>\u00a011\/13\/12\u00a0<strong>| PRICE:<\/strong>\u00a0DVD $79.95, Blu-ray $79.95<br \/>\n<strong>BONUSES:\u00a0<\/strong>Visual essays by Patrick Rumble and Tony Rayns; interviews with Ennio Morricone, production designer Dante Ferretti and critic Sam Rohdie; documentaries about missing scenes from the films; \u201cVia Pasolini\u201d; and \u201cPasolini and the Form of Cities\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>SPECS:<\/strong>\u00a0R\/NC-17\u00a0<strong>|<\/strong>\u00a0352 min.\u00a0<strong>|<\/strong>\u00a0Foreign language comedy-drama\u00a0<strong>|<\/strong>\u00a0widescreen\u00a0<strong>|\u00a0<\/strong>Dolby Digital stereo | Italian with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/?attachment_id=1869\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1869\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Decameron-300x176-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1869\" \/><\/a><\/a>Showcasing three of the most accessible and blatantly entertaining of Pier Paolo Pasolini\u2019s dozen fiction features, the four-disc <strong><em>Pasolini\u2019s Trilogy of Life\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>collection offers a fascinating glimpse at the cinema-poet\u2019s very pungent and sensual notion of erotica, as well as his very evident love of the art of storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>Pasolini reached back to classical literature \u2014 and most importantly populist<em>\u00a0<\/em>classical literature \u2014 to reflect upon sexuality and human behavior. Each of the films has its own individual merits, but the first,\u00a0<em>The Decameron\u00a0<\/em>(1971) is by far the biggest audience-pleaser while the third,\u00a0<em>Arabian Nights\u00a0<\/em>(1974), is the most \u201cexotic\u201d entry.\u00a0<em>The Canterbury Tales<\/em>\u00a0(1972) has its simple joys and winningly vulgar short tales, but there is an oddly grim tone to the proceedings, with the finale given over to one of Pasolini\u2019s most extreme landscapes \u2014 a steaming, unforgettable image of hell (constructed on Mount Etna) in which, among other strange twists, demons excrete friars.<\/p>\n<p>All three films provide models of how to tell multiple stories within the framework of a single film.\u00a0<em>Decameron\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Canterbury<\/em>\u00a0have a barely verbal authorial presence appearing between some of the stories (Pasolini himself, playing \u201cGiotto\u2019s best student\u201d in the first and Chaucer in the second).\u00a0<em>Arabian Nights\u00a0<\/em>has a highly intricate structure, with one story running the length of the film and providing a frame device for all the others.<\/p>\n<p>What is most radical in all three films, however, is that Pasolini frequently abandons his frame devices and simply starts a new story when the preceding one has reached its \u201cpunchline.\u201d In this way viewers will feel like they are paging through a book, without the \u201creassuring\u201d voice of a narrator.<\/p>\n<p>Although the films were promoted during their initial American runs as arthouse erotica (read: softcore for couples), Pasolini\u2019s intention with this trilogy, as is repeatedly stated in the many supplements included here, was to harken back to a time when sex was guilt-free and had yet to be \u201ccorrupted\u201d by capitalism. The trilogy is chock-full of nudity and many vulgar jokes, but they are worlds away from any sort of mainstream pornography.<\/p>\n<p>As is customary with Criterion releases, the supplements in the box are impeccable and incredibly informative. The short documentary \u201cVia Pasolini\u201d composed of fascinating snippets from Sixties and early Seventies TV interviews with the filmmaker. Visual essays by critics Patrick Rumbler and Tony Rayns contextualize and explain each feature, and new interviews with production designer Dante Ferretti and master composer Ennio Morricone supply personal perspectives on what it was like to collaborate with Pasolini.<\/p>\n<p>One gets the impression watching\u00a0<em>The Trilogy of Life<\/em>\u00a0that Pasolini was most interested in using modern storytelling techniques to \u201cresurrect\u201d three classic books for a new era. 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