Review of Arabian Nights (1974) by Jack G — 11 Nov 2007
Probably the best of Pasolini's trilogy of life, and as aesthetically beautiful as any film ever was. The structure is a miracle, as tales unfold into the telling of other tales, stories are digressed from, gone back to, overlap.
The film offers not merely a vision of a world which no longer exists (if it ever did) but also of a way of thinking about being human which has retreated into a mythic past. The film is resolutely irrational.
There is a slight unease in the tourist's eye that Pasolini brings to his filming of the characters and locations, but who can blame him for romanticising bodies and sites as stupendously gorgeous as this?
This review of Arabian Nights (1974) was written by Jack G on 11 Nov 2007.
Arabian Nights has generally received positive reviews.
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