Bawdy Tales
Two condemned murderers in 1850 Rome share tales of castration and desire before execution. Stories involve self-mutilating nobles, a vengeful shepherd's wife, a priest's punishment, and a complex lov…
Bawdy Tales
Two condemned murderers in 1850 Rome share tales of castration and desire before execution. Stories involve self-mutilating nobles, a vengeful shepherd's wife, a priest's punishment, and a complex love triangle. In 1850 Rome, two imprisoned young murderers--Bernardino and Mammone--await their execution, passing their last hours telling each other stories of lust and castration. The first involves a duke and a clergyman castrating themselves while the lusty duchess and a lusty country girl are left alone. The second is about a Calabrese shepherd who leads his unfaithful wife to eat her lover's testicles, thinking they're from cattle. The third deals with the castration of a priest by the young man after whom he was lusting. The last story is about a different sort of menage-a-trois. —Artemis-9 The film is set in 1800, in Rome. Two thieves, Bernardino (Ninetto Davoli) and Mammone (Franco Citti), are imprisoned and condemned to death. To pass the time, the two tell ribald stories. In the first, a duke (Silvano Gatti) and a man named Nicolino (Enzo Petriglia) discover that their wives have betrayed them with the boys and with a priest; in the second story, two farmers are fighting a clappers asimile Rustican Cavalry by Giovanni Verga. In the third story, a debauched priest kills one of his pilgrims because he is in love with one of the girls the priest sought after. In the last story, a husband spends all of his money to gain his wife's affection. He tells her that since he is now broke, he intends to kill himself. The wife has a different plan to take on an elderly man who has been making eyes at her in public as a live-in john. The husband accepts, and all three live together as a happy family. The wife soon becomes bored of the two and takes a much younger lover with whom she meets frequently in a meadow outside of town. The elderly man informs the husband of this, and the two ambush and kill the young man. Soon, the wife dies of heartbreak, and the husband and john are executed for their crime. It is now Judgment Day, and the archangel is listing all their crimes before the Lord and asking all of them how they plead. The two husbands and the wife give self-serving answers about how they wish to go to Paradise and serve the Lord whom they have always cherished while the young man says he would prefer to go back to Earth so he can screw around and get drunk like in the old times. The angel banishes the three to Hell but sends the young lover to Paradise. The two thieves now have the nooses around their throats and are laughing, almost in tears at the funny ending to the story. They are executed, and the film ends on a shot of them hanging lifeless from the nooses.
Bawdy Tales
Comedy,Crime,Drama
Film Details
Two condemned murderers in 1850 Rome share tales of castration and desire before execution. Stories involve self-mutilating nobles, a vengeful shepherd's wife, a priest's punishment, and a complex love triangle. In 1850 Rome, two imprisoned young murderers--Bernardino and Mammone--await their execution, passing their last hours telling each other stories of lust and castration.
The first involves a duke and a clergyman castrating themselves while the lusty duchess and a lusty country girl are left alone. The second is about a Calabrese shepherd who leads his unfaithful wife to eat her lover's testicles, thinking they're from cattle. The third deals with the castration of a priest by the young man after whom he was lusting.
The last story is about a different sort of menage-a-trois. —Artemis-9 The film is set in 1800, in Rome. Two thieves, Bernardino (Ninetto Davoli) and Mammone (Franco Citti), are imprisoned and condemned to death.
To pass the time, the two tell ribald stories. In the first, a duke (Silvano Gatti) and a man named Nicolino (Enzo Petriglia) discover that their wives have betrayed them with the boys and with a priest; in the second story, two farmers are fighting a clappers asimile Rustican Cavalry by Giovanni Verga. In the third story, a debauched priest kills one of his pilgrims because he is in love with one of the girls the priest sought after.
In the last story, a husband spends all of his money to gain his wife's affection. He tells her that since he is now broke, he intends to kill himself. The wife has a different plan to take on an elderly man who has been making eyes at her in public as a live-in john.
The husband accepts, and all three live together as a happy family. The wife soon becomes bored of the two and takes a much younger lover with whom she meets frequently in a meadow outside of town. The elderly man informs the husband of this, and the two ambush and kill the young man.
Soon, the wife dies of heartbreak, and the husband and john are executed for their crime. It is now Judgment Day, and the archangel is listing all their crimes before the Lord and asking all of them how they plead. The two husbands and the wife give self-serving answers about how they wish to go to Paradise and serve the Lord whom they have always cherished while the young man says he would prefer to go back to Earth so he can screw around and get drunk like in the old times.
The angel banishes the three to Hell but sends the young lover to Paradise. The two thieves now have the nooses around their throats and are laughing, almost in tears at the funny ending to the story. They are executed, and the film ends on a shot of them hanging lifeless from the nooses..