Room 7
The Cruel Lovers' Hell
"The hell of the cruel Lovers” is inspired in one of the main characters of the Decameron’s story, Nastagio degli Onesti, and more specifically in how Botticelli represented him in his famous four tables: with different temporalities merged in the same image.The Renaissance painter represented the story of the fifth day in Boccaccio’s Decameron eighth novel: "The hell of the cruel lovers". This narrates the amorous vicissitudes of Nastagio degli Onesti, a young man from Ravenna whose beloved does not love him back. Under a pine forest, he sees as a woman is persecuted by a horse rider who attacks her and kills her, but she rises immediately after and the infernal hunt is repeated endlessly. They are the ghosts imprisoned by a curse as an outcome of the girl’s rejection towards her suitor, who ends up committing suicide. Nastagio thinks that the apparition might come to be useful: he makes his disdainful beloved see the ghostly haunt and maker her surrender and marry him to form a happy marriage.
Credits
Director, script, post-production image and sound:Alejo Levis Director of Photography:Pau Català Camera Assistant:Paula Capdevila Production:Isabel Bassas and Anna Tabernero Assistant Director:Cintia Ballbé Styling:Alba Miquel Make-up:Sandra Martín Díaz Music:“Llac” by Ensemble Topogràfic Performers:Inma Asensio, Laia Duran, Roberto Gómez, Anna Hierro, Èlia López and Lorena Nogal Horses:Fede Valley-Barcelo, Ruth Aixemeni and Ahmed Kazan Duration:4 minuts
