The Canterbury Tales (1972)

Original title

I racconti di Canterbury

Directed by

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Genre

fantasy film, comedy film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

NC-17

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 234 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film adapts several of Chaucer's stories, following a group of pilgrims on a journey. Each tale is a bawdy or moralizing episode about human folly and desire.

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What happens

The Canterbury Tales (Italian: I racconti di Canterbury) is a 1972 Italian medieval erotic black comedy film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on the medieval narrative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. The second film in Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life", preceded by The Decameron and followed by Arabian Nights, it won the Golden Bear at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. With the "Trilogy of Life", Pasolini sought to adapt vibrant, erotic tales from classical literature. With The Decameron, Pasolini adapted an important work from the early era of the Italian language. With The Canterbury Tales he set his sights to the earthy Middle English tales of Chaucer. The film came after a string of movies of the late 1960s in which Pasolini had a major ideological bent. Though this film is much more light-hearted in nature Pasolini nonetheless considered it among his most "ideological". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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