The Canterbury Tales (film)
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| Directed by | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Produced by | Alberto Grimaldi |
| Written by | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Tonino Delli Colli |
| Release date(s) |  2 July 1972 (premiere at BIFF) 2 September 1972 30 March 1980 |
| Running time | 122 min. |
| Language | Italian |
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The Canterbury Tales (Italian: I racconti di Canterbury) is a 1972 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and based on the medieval narrative poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is the second film in Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life'.
The adaptation is relatively faithful but often diverges from Chaucer. In Pasolini's version of the fragmentary Cook's Tale, Ninetto Davoli plays the role of Perkyn in manner clearly inspired by Charlie Chaplin. Another tale is not derived from Chaucer at all: in it, two men caught in an inn bedroom committing buggery. Soldiers burst in - this is several centuries before the concept of the police force - and arrest the two men. The one on top is able to bribe the guards to let him go, but the other is less fortunate: he is tried and convicted of sodomy and is burned alive inside an iron cage ("roasted on a griddle" in the words of one spectator) while vendors sell beer and various baked and roasted foods to the spectators.
Accattone • Mamma Roma • La ricotta (RoGoPaG) • The Gospel According to St. Matthew • Love Meetings • The Hawks and the Sparrows • The Witches • Oedipus Rex • Theorem • Love and Anger • Pigpen • Medea • The Decameron • The Canterbury Tales • The Flower of the One Thousand and One Nights • Salò
| Preceded by The Garden of the Finzi-Continis |
Golden Bear winner 1972 |
Succeeded by Distant Thunder |
