Wondrous Boccaccio

Maraviglioso Boccaccio

An impressive cinematic translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron stories, set amid the beauty of the Tuscan landscape.

  • Director

    Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

  • With

    Lello Arena, Paola Cortellesi, Carolina Crescentini, Flavio Parenti

  • Italy-France 2015. 120min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

In the Middle Ages, as a terrible plague lays siege to Florence, a group of young people flee from the city to the countryside. There, in the safety of their new home, they tell stories. Within this loose framework, the Tavianis adapt Boccaccio’s masterly Decameron into a film that is, by turns, tragic, romantic and ribaldly humorous.