The Canterbury Tales Comments

  • Mable 2022-09-15 20:24:09

    Many people who don't understand this film don't know much about the spirit of the late Middle Ages, an era when the aesthetic tastes of the bourgeoisie went to war against the chivalrous class, the clergy class and the imperial power. Pasolini restores this interest very...

  • Armando 2022-09-15 18:51:01

    Series ends. After the trilogy, it is impossible to say how deeply impressed the movie left me. I have been spoiled by the current movies, and watching these three movies has always been a little bit unbearable. The trilogy is basically straight-forward, without any special narrative skills, and the actors can't talk about the explosion of acting skills, just not play. I think this is Pasolini's uniqueness, and the human nature shown in the film is more real. Sex is a human instinct. Whether...

  • Merle 2022-09-15 15:03:54

    There are so many things to admire that are magical products mixed with extreme bad taste, and then the author Chaucer, played by Pasolini himself, leaned his forehead and smiled. (The sound is so bad in the later stage that I can't see it at...

  • Marvin 2022-09-15 11:50:37

    What I feel is that the truth cannot be found and only the desire to determine the fantasy of heaven and hell is just a helpless diversion on the road of truth pursuit. Two sudden dark nights. "Totally agree, you take your share, and I take whatever people are willing to give me." There are two reasons to tell the devil that God is watching us: sarcasm, God is watching everything; God is really watching the devil, because the devil and God are doing the same thing. Maybe everything is just for...

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The Canterbury Tales quotes

  • Molly: [singing] Oh, there was a little beggar man that goes from town to town, and wherever he get a job and work he's willing to sit down. With his bundle on his shoulder, his stick was in his hand and it's down the country I shall go with me roving journeyman. And from the County Carlow the girls all jump for joy. Says one unto the other "now here comes a Dublin boy." And they wanted me to marry her and took me by the hand. She went home and told her mother that she loves the journeyman.

  • Angel: Hey Satan! Lift up your tail and show us where you keep the friars in hell!

The Canterbury Tales

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Language: Italian,English,Latin,Gaelic Release date: May 30, 1980