Decameron '69 (1969)

• 54%
• 1969
• Louis Grospierre
• Bernard Clarens
• Jean Desvilles
• Miklós Jancsó
• François Reichenbach
• Jean Herman
• Rita Bennett
• Jackie Richards
• Richard B. Shull

A series of several short films deal with sex, desire, loneliness and in one case, even murder:"Claudia" A beautiful woman takes to spying on the windows of men who live in a tenement through a spy glass, silently sizing up which men are lonely and then selecting one to lavish with affection. Her current target is a poor soul that she meets and quickly marries. But it turns out that she is actually a black widow. The scenario ends with her scoping the tenement for her next victim."David" A man and a woman build a relationship based mainly on sex. It is clear that the man is more into the relationship than the woman who looks sometimes uncomfortable and distant, probably because the man is more in love with his camera then with her. The indication is that the relationship ended after some time and that the man remembers and cherishes it more than the women ever did."Gyorgy" A sculptor speaks on his passionate love for his chosen art form, even up to admitting that he finds the forms that he creates even more appealing than the real thing - from these sculpted works he sees the purest beauty in the world. But he is forced to confront notions of beauty in the world when he sees the death and degradation of his native France when it is taken over by The Nazis."Robert" A timid young man sees the boredom and complacency in his own life, seeing the people around him as shallow and insignificant. But his mind keeps wandering back to one magical day on the beach long ago with two beautiful Swedish girls, where he regrets that he did not act on how he felt about them.The final segment features four damaged and lonely women from similar backgrounds who attempt to find some outlet via their sexual encounters:Adrian - A lonely housewife whose much older husband is too busy to meet her sexual needs. So, she finds her fulfillment in much younger men, mostly teenagers. Roxanne - A girl from a poor neighborhood who has given to becoming a mistress wherein she gets everything that she wants, eve through it can't completely fulfill her needs. Samantha Jane - An African-American prostitute since the age of nine who rose up from a life of dire poverty to sell her body for vast amounts of money. She claims to hate her clients. Gloria - A self-hating lesbian who marks encounters with girls just as lost as she. Never romantic, only useful.