Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974)

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   MMDan

   Don't watch it with mother. 8 years 2 months ago
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   boxojoi

   Very entertaining film. Also some of the best backdrops I've ever seen. 10 years 4 months ago
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   Siskoid

   A year from the widely banned 120 Days of Sodom, Pasolini injects a lot of nudity (mostly male, some might say, refreshingly) into his loose adaptation of the Arabian Nights. These aren't the best-known tales in the canon, though there's a sense of a remix of their elements - 40 thieves here, a lamp there, stories within stories but no actual Scheherazade - Pasolini having essentially picked and chosen from the most erotic (certainly, one of the most enduring images is the use of a trick arrow even Green Arrow wouldn't have dared use). Indeed, things don't become "magical" until late in the film, though there's a lot of magic in the film's lustiness and its amazing locations - places we haven't seen a million times like Ethiopia, Iran, Nepal and Yemen. The Russian doll structure ends up instructing the frame tale characters on love and desire; they all carry some element of danger associated with those feelings, the potential for loss and destruction. However, the off-canon African poem the girl tells the boy at the onset speaks to some matches made in heaven, and there's hope for the two of them in that. 3 years ago

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