Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

it is the purpose of each film of Pasolini. to discover the truth. to show it. as careful , hard work of search of origins. the eroticism, the exoticism, the references to the great cultural things are clothes for a noble idea. "Arabian Nights" is not an exception. only inspired trip in the essence of an universe . fascinating, old, reflection of yourself, part from an golden age, impressive for the details, colors and flavors. his actors. his challenges. his web of dreams. his magic and love stories as embroideries of flesh, shadows and dark. a beautiful, bitter film. useful way. to the truth.

The WTF is strong in this film. Lots of head shaking and bewilderment to be found here. Including a bow and arrow powered dildoe. I've read 1001 nights and found it completely different but there are those that argue this film is the most accurate of all! Such as "Adaptation Essay Prize Winner Pasolini's Splendid Infidelities: Un/Faithful Film Versions of The Thousand and One Nights" by Michael James Lundell. Where believe it or not he argues that "Pasolini's 1974 film Il fiore delle mille e una notte seems to be the most faithful adaptation, in its emphasis on sexuality, of The 1001 Nights in its oldest form. This success is surprising and possibly inadvertent but it presents a potentially measurable connection between the written and filmic Nights."

This movie is a very exotic and beautiful film, from the master film maker Pasolini,I kiss his feet. He's better than Orson Wells.Shot in the beautiful locales of Yemen,Nepal,Africa and Iran.Beautiful? A big poverty stricken region!filled with unemployment.Pier saved the day when he came to that country.This film has a lot of nudity,especially the emphasis of the male body as well as the female body.It also has some less explicit simulated sex.like the yoga position sex act scene between Aziz ,played by Ninetto Davoli and Budur,played by Luigina Rocchi.There's a mild gay story in it too.When an Ethiopian king is peeping ,from the bushes, a naked women cleaning herself,until she catches him,he later ask his gay poet to write a poem about it.Later on this old fart of a poet pick up three hot young Ethiopian black studs,with 1974 Afros.They end up having a suggested four way.Although the 3rd remake in 1978 and it's sequel in 1986 had real sex in it,this story is very complex.What should I say? The blond blue eyed Christian ,stolen Nur Ed Din, played by Franco Merli, slave Zumurud,played Ines Pellegrini.Now as he's searching for her .This is when some of the stories are told.Like when one of the prince's survives a gang attack in the desert and he gets rescued by a man who offers him his home,He,the prince eventually meets this women who is in hostage by this man ,who plays a demon,played by Franco Citti.Once he finds out about the two lovers,he chops the women and send the prince to a desert and the demon turns him into monkey.Until some one rescue him ,the monkey and the kings daughter turns the prince back into human.But he turns the kings jobs down chooses to be a truth seeker.The kings son want to take a trip on his father ship.He does and a curse hits the ship causing a wreck.He end sup on a island and discover a 15 year old boy who live their.They both like each other Platonic level ,but,the second prince ends up being put under a hypnotic spell and stabs the boy to death while the boys a sleep.the father rescues the prince but he too become a truth seeker.The Cinema photography is great.The movie was shot silent and the dialog and sound effects were looped in.This movie was as good As Piers version of Canterbury tales.which I saw at the Forrest hill 4theater in 1980 04/12/13

Exploration of the search. Shadow of way and interior fight, images like footsteps of old time, joy of adventure.For me, not the Oriental myth or the Arabian tale are the subject of movie but Pasolini's hope. The way to kalokagathos is not yet only illusion. The innocence of first age is possibility to discover the essence of human sense like filling's sight." Il Fiore delle mille e una notte" is part of important project, a human life's exploration, a tale about the taste and the limits of innocence, a pledge for dream and childhood values but, in same time, a merciless verdict: this world is only desire, chimera, legend. His touch is ,always,immoral,unavailing, dangerous.In fact, it is a new book of Job version. It is a story, beautiful story, about wantonness. But the only way to survive, only refuge is the dream like imagination fruit. Important is only the way. The target is trifling.A splendid poem-film who explains Pasolini crisis.