In the Fourteenth Century, in Italy, nine erotic and (most of them) funny tales of Boccaccio are told in Decameron: 1) A young man is deceived in Naples by a beautiful woman, who tells she is her sister. He is stolen, falls in a cesspool full of excrement, but in the end he receives a reward. 2) A young man simulates being deaf and dumb to get a job in a convent and have intercourse with the nuns. 3) A woman cheats her naive husband. In a holiday, the cuckold arrives earlier at home, and the woman uses her creativity to resolve the situation. 4) A very bad man goes to a village to collect some debts, dies and becomes a saint. 5) An exotic painter arrives in a town to paint the wall of a church. 6) A young woman asks her parents to sleep in the balcony of her house to catch a nightingale. 7) Three brothers eliminate the lover of their sister. 8) Two friends, one of them a priest, arrive at the simple and small home of one of them. Due to the lack of space, the priest proposes to transform the wife of the other guy in a mule to help him in the hard job along the day and become a woman at night. 9) Two friends promise to each other to tell how death is, when the first one dies. The best tales are no. 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8. They are really very funny. Once again Pasolini uses some ham actors and many front male nudity, but at least, most of the stories are good and the location is very realistic, not fancy like in Hollywood movies. I liked it, but religious persons certainly will be shocked with this film. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): `Decameron'
Title (Brazil): `Decameron'