Wondrous Boccaccio
– It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three..
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
26 Feb 2015
Italian
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Giovanni Boccaccio (stories), Paolo Taviani (screenplay), Vittorio Taviani (screenplay)
Lello Arena, Paola Cortellesi, Carolina Crescentini, Flavio Parenti
Florence, Thirteenth Century. The "Black Death" is spreading. Ten kids (three boys and seven girls) decide to escape and to seek shelter in the countryside, away from the horrible consequences of the plague. In order to kill time, each kid tells a particular story, but no matter how different their stories may be, they all have one aspect in common: love. A love that will help the characters cope with the numerous uncertainties of a very arduous age.
1 win & 8 nominations.