The final part of Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life series, adapted from The Thousand and One Nights, is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of medieval literature. The trilogy offers a refreshingly honest and gritty take on human nature, via some of the world’s most enduring literary endeavours: Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights.