They wear identical gowns which differ only in color, a scenic touch, but the downside is that the girls (all played by non-pros) are practically indistinguishable. Seven young women similar in age, station and looks meet inside a church to plan their escape to the country. Boccaccio would seem to offer a perfect set-up in this regard. The starkly simple shots perfectly convey the epidemic’s gruesome inevitability.Ī constant in the work of the directors, who are now in their 80s, is their belief in ensemble acting to express collective thinking and action. Workmen load corpses on carts and bury them in mass graves. People scurry through the streets pressing flowers to their faces to ward off the stench of decomposing bodies. A young man covered with red blotches throws himself off an ornate tower. The early scenes in Florence have a startling freshness in the finest Taviani style.
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