1974 · drama · fantasy · italian
Arabian Nights
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini2h 11m1974
The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.
Our read: Arabian Nights (1974) reads as a warm, measured, inventive drama · fantasy · italian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, measured drama / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- measured
- inventive
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