The Hendersonville Film Society will show Wondrous Boccaccio Sunday, June 26, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
Wondrous Boccaccio
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In Brief: Put bluntly, the Taviani Brothers' Wondrous Boccaccio (2015) isn't. That's not all that surprising since it's from the Taviani Brothers, gained no release in the country and is out on DVD from Film Movement, whose name is synonymous with movies no one else would touch. What you get with this adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron is a really nice-looking stiff of a movie — one that seems to have all but missed the bawdiness of the tales it contains. When the film does try for "naughtiness," it becomes artificial and stilted. When it goes for knockabout comedy, it's just embarrassing. And, of course, the anthology collection of stories make it uneven at best. What it has going for it are the settings and the scenery. For those who think subtitles mean it's art, well, it has those, too.
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Director: | Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani |
| Starring: | Kasia Smutniak, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Vittoria Puccini, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers |
| Rated: | NR |
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