Summary: In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of premodern world literature -- Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (often known as The Arabian Nights)-- and in doing so created his most uninhibited and extravagant work, which he titled his Trilogy of Life. In this brazen and bawdy triptych, the director set out to challenge consumer capitalism and celebrate the uncorrupted human body while commenting on contemporary sexual and religious mores and hypocrisies. His scatological humor and rough-hewn sensuality leave all modern standards of decency behind; these are physical, provocative, and wildly entertaining films. Includes bonus features

Credits note: Produced by Alberto Grimaldi ; written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini ; designed by Dante Ferretti ; music by Ennio Morricone

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PerformerNote: Decameron: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, M. Gabriella Frankel, Gerhard Exel, Wolfgang Hillinger ; Canterbury tales: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Josephine Chaplin ; Arabian nights: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Ines Pellegrini, Tessa Bouche, Franco Merli, Margaret Clementi

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