Critics reviews

Communist poet and filmmaker Pasolini's Decameron retells Boccaccio's classic moral tales with burlesque humor and colorful imagery... Like any good Italian Catholic communist, Pasolini finds pleasure in toying with religious/bourgeois ehypocrisies and even greater pleasure in all the Catholic Church's fetishized symbolism.

The Decameron is the first of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life films. It summons forth a world in which bourgeois hypocrisy and capitalist exploitation have no place. It is, as Pasolini, in the role of Giotto's pupil, muses in the last shot of the film, an attempt to render a dream.