Arabian Nights August 6, 2011

The final film in Pier Paolo Pasolini's “Trilogy of Life,” the Arabian Nights adapts Scheherezade’s tales-within-tales—populated by slaves and kings, demons and lovers. By turns lusty, poetic and humorous, Pasolini's film is a ribald, liberating celebration of life in all its mystery. Shot on location in Iran, Yemen and Ethiopia, Arabian Nights offer a succession of sumptuously surreal surprises, from the pictorial to the sensual.

This film is part of the Once Upon a Time in the Middle East series in conjunction with the exhbition Gifts of the Sultan currently on view at LACMA.

Official Website: http://www.lacma.org/event/arabian-nights