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A Tale from the Decameron, 1916
My previous post is on Woody Allen's latest movie, Midnight in Paris, which is part of a series of films he's shooting in Europe. He started this series in 2008 with Vicky Cristina Barcelona, then he went to London in 2010 with You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Midnight in Paris is his latest film set in Europe, and came out in 2011. His European tour continues in Rome, with his forthcoming film, The Bop Decameron, which might have been titled (and conceived) after The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval stories. It looks like Allen is paying homage to Italy's literary and film traditions in this film, where, for example, he refers to Frederico Fellini's La Dolce Vita using the talents of the Italian actor Roberto Benigni. Here is Wikipedia's synopsis of the film:
The Bop Decameron will be a modern-day take on Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Decameron" that will consist of four vignettes--one of which will consist of a husband (played by Allen) and his wife traveling to Rome, and meeting the family of the Italian man that their daughter is going to marry. Another of the vignettes will feature Roberto Benigni as a man named Leopoldo who gets mistaken for a movie star. A third segment will feature Alec Baldwin as an architect from California visiting Rome with his friends.I can only speculate that the "bop" in the title refers to bebop, and we might get some more of Woody Allen's jazz music.
The Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini has already tackled these stories in his 1971 film The Decameron.
I wonder when Allen will return to his beloved New York?