As framing devices
go, Decamerone is pretty much the original. And the concept can, and sometimes
do, work in cinema as well as in books.
What we have here,
though, is mostly surface. Spectacular scenery, spot-on costumes and a heavenly
beautiful cast. The five stories told within (making this, I suppose,
Quintamerone) are of varying quality. The falconry bit works fine, but the one
that’s supposed to be funny just leaves a bitter taste: I guess we’re to
sympathise with the simpleton being tricked into thinking he’s invisible, but
he uses what he believes is invisibility to be a dick. A violent, abusive dick,
at that.
But, yeah, I’d like
to go to Toscana someday, and preferably not during the plague.
Passed the Bechdel
test
3 supermodels of 6
https://festival.giff.se/events/wondrous-boccaccio
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3596952/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1
