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Given the timely framing of “The Decameron,” the choice was “a no-brainer,” according to Tsikurishvili, who spoke, like most of those interviewed for this story, via Google Meet.

In Boccaccio’s Decameron, the 14th-century novellas about Florence during the Black Death, some people lived temperately, hoping it would protect their health, secluding themselves from society.

Based on tales from Giovanni Boccaccio’s medieval book “The Decameron,” the film turns out to be much more, an odd, funny, unexpectedly vibrant portrait of people just trying to make things work out.

In Jeff Baena’s “The Little Hours,” a cheeky adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th century collection of novellas, “The Decameron,” the filmmaker makes an attempt at “nunsploitation,” that 1970s sub-genre of repressed sexuality and confused perversity.

He found eccentric justification for these beliefs in the few books he read, among them the Decameron, the Bible, the Koran, and “The Travels of Sir John Mandeville,” all in translation.