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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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