{"product_id":"aba-blu-pasoli004-71551","title":"Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy Of Life (BLU-RAY)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of medieval literature—Giovanni Boccaccio’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Decameron,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Geoffrey Chaucer’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Thousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (often known as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)—and in doing so created his most uninhibited and extravagant work. In this brazen and bawdy triptych, the director set out to challenge modern consumer culture and celebrate the uncorrupted human body, while commenting on contemporary sexual and religious mores and hypocrisies. Filled with scatological humor and a rough-hewn sensuality that leave all modern standards of decency behind, these are carnal, provocative, and wildly entertaining films, all extraordinarily designed by Dante Ferretti and featuring evocative music by Ennio Morricone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Decameron\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePier Paolo Pasolini weaves together a handful of Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century moral tales in this picturesque free-for-all.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Decameron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores the delectations and dark corners of an earlier and, as the filmmaker saw it, less compromised time. Among the chief delights are a young man’s exploits with a gang of grave robbers, a flock of randy nuns who sin with a strapping gardener, and Pasolini’s appearance as a pupil of the painter Giotto, at work on a massive fresco. One of the director’s most popular films,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Decameron,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etrans­posed to Naples from Boccaccio’s Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEight of Geoffrey Chaucer’s lusty tales come to life on-screen in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s gutsy and delirious \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales,\u003c\/i\u003e which was shot in England and offers a remarkably earthy re-creation of the medieval era. From the story of a nobleman struck blind after marrying a much younger and promiscuous bride to a climactic trip to a hell populated by friars and demons (surely one of the most outrageously conceived and realized sequences ever committed to film), this is an endlessly imaginative work of merry blasphemy, framed by Pasolini’s portrayal of Chaucer himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePier Paolo Pasolini traveled to Africa, Nepal, and the Middle East to realize this ambitious cinematic treatment of a selection of stories from the legendary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Thousand and One Nights.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e This is not the fairy-tale world of Scheherazade or Aladdin, though. Instead, the director focuses on the book’s more erotic tales, framed by the story of a young man’s quest to reconnect with his beloved slave girl. Full of lustrous sets and costumes and stunning location photography, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a fierce and joyous exploration of human sexuality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eSPECIAL FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew visual essays by film scholars Patrick Rumble and Tony Rayns, on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Decameron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArabian Nights,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erespectively\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interviews with production designer Dante Ferretti, composer Ennio Morricone, and film scholar Sam Rohdie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction to\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby director Pier Paolo Pasolini\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Body of Alibech\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2005), a documentary by Roberto Chiesi about a lost sequence from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Decameron\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Secret Humiliation of Chaucer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2006), a documentary by Chiesi about\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eVia Pasolini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2005), a documentary featuring archival footage of Pasolini discussing his views on language, film, and modern society\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePasolini and the Form of the City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1974), a documentary by Pasolini and Paolo Brunatto about the Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeleted scenes from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePasolini-approved English-dubbed track for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew English subtitle translations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by critic Colin MacCabe; Pasolini’s 1975 statement “Trilogy of Life Rejected”; excerpts from Pasolini’s Berlin Film Festival press conference for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand a report from the set of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby critic Gideon Bachmann\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Unobstructed View","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41280965607624,"sku":"CC2191BD","price":99.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/products\/trilogyoflife.jpg?v=1640231376","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/aba-blu-pasoli004-71551","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}