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Arabian Nights

Beautiful and luxurious, the second best of the trilogy, still weaker than THE DECAMERON due to some illogical, albeit romantic, sequences. I love the non-narrative of every film in the trilogy, where linear story is less important than expressing the milleu of the setting (Italy, Britain, Arabia) circa the Middle Ages, and reclaiming the era from cliches about it being a time of religious-oriented purity. Grade: B-.