REVIEW

The Little Hours

September 1, 2017 at 1:46 a.m.

by Philip Martin

Sister Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza) berates the help, the new gardener Massetto (Dave Franco), who pretends to not hear a word she’s screaming in Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours, a comedy set in a 14-century Italian monastery.
Sister Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza) berates the help, the new gardener Massetto (Dave Franco), who pretends to not hear a word she’s screaming in Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours, a comedy set in a 14-century Italian monastery.

I never got around to reading Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.

I had my chances; I can visualize the copy on my parents' bookshelf, squeezed in between the 10-volume set of Grolier Classics (40 abridged versions of such works as Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, and -- my favorite as a 10-year-old -- La Rochefoucauld's Maxims and Reflections) and the three-volume Bulfinch's Mythology. But while I've heard The Decameron described and cited so often that I feel like I know all about it, my only direct experience with it has been a few excerpts.

The Little Hours

88 Cast: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Jemima Kirke, Nick Offerman, Lauren Weedman, Adam Pally, Jon Gabrus

Director: Jeff Baena

Rating: R, for graphic nudity, sexual content and language

Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

I know there are bawdy bits.

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