Jun 13
Certainly The Decameron represents a departure, in many important ways, from Pasolini's films of the 1960's. Pasolini insisted that this film reflected a new vitality. A carnivalesque celebration of what he called: The joy of living and making love. I think it's fair to say that The Decameron is Pasolini's most playful film, reflecting a turning point in his career, although the film is certainly not without elements of the tragic dimensions that had characterized his earlier films. —Patrick Rumble, author of Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
