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Decameron Nights

1953, Movie, NR, 93 mins

Decameron Nights: Review

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Boccaccio's lusty, bawdy collection of stories is considerably sanitized here. The main story tells of Jourdan, as Boccaccio, hiding out from a rebel army and wooing Fontaine. Within this frame are hung three stories, each starring Fontaine and Jourdan. In the first, "Paganino the Pirate," a young wife whose aging husband shows more interest in astrology than in her allows herself to be abducted by a young, virile pirate. When she is rescued, she pretends never to have seen her husband before. The second, "Wager for Virtue," concerns a man tricked into betting on his wife's virtue and then believing circumstantial evidence of his cuckoldry. It ends with the trickster tricked and husband and wife reunited. The third story, "The Doctor's Daughter," concerns a female doctor who saves a king's life and asks to marry one of his courtiers in return. The resentful courtier stands her up at the church and tells her he will only be her husband when she is wearing his ring and bearing his child. How she tricks him into fulfilling these conditions make up the rest of the episode. Despite lush costuming and photography, the film is curiously bland and spiritless, giving proof to the cliche "the book is better." leave a comment
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