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Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974)
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Information
- A.k.a.
- Arabian Nights
- Year
- 1974
- Runtime
- 130 min.
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, History
- Rating *
- 6.8
- Votes *
- 5,959
- Checks
- 1,096
- Favs
- 72
- Dislikes
- 27
- Favs/checks
- 6.6% (1:15)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:1
Top comments
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boxojoi
Very entertaining film. Also some of the best backdrops I've ever seen. 10 years 3 months ago -
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. 2 years 11 months ago
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This movie ranks #10 in Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prix
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This movie ranks #339 in Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey
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This movie ranks #756 in The Criterion Collection
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This movie ranks #993 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
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