Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
The final film in director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life,” filmed in the Middle East and Africa, unfurls exotic sexualities and their emancipatory power. Beginning with the story of a slave girl choosing a master and initiating him sexually, Pasolini develops other narratives, intricately setting stories within stories. Ravishing and celebratory, the film implicitly caps Pasolini’s embrace of hedonistic answers to modern capitalism and its attendant inhibitions.
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi. Screenwriter: P. Pasolini, with the collaboration of Dacia Maraini, based on tales from “A Thousand and One Nights.” Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Editor: Nino Baragli, Tatiana Casini Morigi. Cast: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Tessa Bouche, Ines Pellegrini.
35mm, color, in Italian with English subtitles, 148 min.
Watch the trailer below.
