#Arabian nights movie 1974 series

The stories feel a bit long at times, and I kind of wanted to return to Nur-e-Din and Zumurrud. The stories they hear along the way are all sex based and range from two people betting on sex between two young people to a man who falls in love with another woman on his wedding day. I found the story of Nur-e-Din and Zumurrud actually kind of compelling from their meeting (the unusual aspect of her choosing him to be subservient to) to his continuous screw-ups which led to her being lost.

While The Decameron is more vignettes of stories and The Canterbury Tales has a blanket story, Arabian Nights has more of a story filled with other stories.

I had seen the вЂњbadвЂќ (aka Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom), and I was curious about the more positive Pasolini Trilogy of Life films which that film was essentially a reaction toвЂ¦Arabian Nights was my first stop. PasoliniвЂ™s film ooze the вЂњgoodвЂќ and the вЂњbadвЂќ of sexuality and aspects of human nature. Piere Paolo Pasolini has a visionвЂ¦it just isnвЂ™t everyoneвЂ™s vision. The film received critical acclaim (it won the 1974 Grand Prix Special Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) and the Criterion Collection released a remastered version of the Trilogy of Life films (Criterion #631) with Arabian Nights as Criterion #634.

#Arabian nights movie 1974 series

The film is part of PasoliniвЂ™s Trilogy of Life series which includes The Decameron (1971) and The Canterbury Tales (1972). The odds are stacked against Zumurrud and Nur-d-DinвЂ¦can they find love again?Дirected Pier Paolo Pasolini, Arabian Nights ( Il fiore delle mille e una notte aka The Flower of the One Thousand and One Nights) is a loose adaptation of stories from The Arabian Nights (or The Book of One Thousand and One Nights). As Zumurrud and Nur-e-Din seek each other out, they encounter others who struggle with love, sex, and the problems that come with them. When Zumurrud is spirited away by abductors, Nur-e-Din sets out to find his love again. Young Nur-e-Din (Franco Merli) has been selected by a beautiful slave girl named Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini) to be her master.