The Canterbury Tales (1972)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
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Release DateSeptember 2, 1972
Original NameI racconti di Canterbury
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 51m
Content RatingNC-17
Filming LocationsMaidstone · Chipping Campden · Warwick · Lavenham · Rye · Battle Abbey · St Osyth · Rolvenden · Layer Marney Tower · Hastings · Wells Cathedral · Canterbury Cathedral · Cambridge, United Kingdom · Bath, Somerset · Mount Etna · Sicily, Italy
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The Canterbury Tales (Italian: I racconti di Canterbury) is a 1972 Italian 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". The film can be seen as an attack on the stiff sexual mores of both Chaucer and Pasolini's times.