This movie is a very exotic and beautiful film, from the master film maker Pasolini,I kiss his feet. He's better than Orson Wells.Shot in the beautiful locales of Yemen,Nepal,Africa and Iran.Beautiful? A big poverty stricken region!filled with unemployment.Pier saved the day when he came to that country.This film has a lot of nudity,especially the emphasis of the male body as well as the female body.It also has some less explicit simulated sex.like the yoga position sex act scene between Aziz ,played by Ninetto Davoli and Budur,played by Luigina Rocchi.There's a mild gay story in it too.When an Ethiopian king is peeping ,from the bushes, a naked women cleaning herself,until she catches him,he later ask his gay poet to write a poem about it.Later on this old fart of a poet pick up three hot young Ethiopian black studs,with 1974 Afros.They end up having a suggested four way.Although the 3rd remake in 1978 and it's sequel in 1986 had real sex in it,this story is very complex.What should I say? The blond blue eyed Christian ,stolen Nur Ed Din, played by Franco Merli, slave Zumurud,played Ines Pellegrini.Now as he's searching for her .This is when some of the stories are told.Like when one of the prince's survives a gang attack in the desert and he gets rescued by a man who offers him his home,He,the prince eventually meets this women who is in hostage by this man ,who plays a demon,played by Franco Citti.Once he finds out about the two lovers,he chops the women and send the prince to a desert and the demon turns him into monkey.Until some one rescue him ,the monkey and the kings daughter turns the prince back into human.But he turns the kings jobs down chooses to be a truth seeker.The kings son want to take a trip on his father ship.He does and a curse hits the ship causing a wreck.He end sup on a island and discover a 15 year old boy who live their.They both like each other Platonic level ,but,the second prince ends up being put under a hypnotic spell and stabs the boy to death while the boys a sleep.the father rescues the prince but he too become a truth seeker.The Cinema photography is great.The movie was shot silent and the dialog and sound effects were looped in.This movie was as good As Piers version of Canterbury tales.which I saw at the Forrest hill 4theater in 1980 04/12/13
Review of Arabian Nights
