Gross worldwide
$8,368
The Canterbury Tales
"I racconti di Canterbury" is a comedy directed by PP Pasolini starring Hugh Greaves and Laura Beatty.
The film tells eight stories that reflect the state of British society in the Middle Ages.
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- Release date May 30, 1980
- Filming locations Battle Abbey, East Sussex, England, UK
- Production companies Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA), Les Productions Artistes Associés
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By Zechariah 2022-11-16 08:12:37
Is there a better mockery than farting?
A collection of short stories by Chaucer, the pioneer of English literature in the 14th century, which Pasolini brought to the screen in his own style. Several small stories, full of irony and ridicule. The darkness, fragility, greed and hypocrisy of human nature are exposed in these stories. The lord with extreme desires married a young and beautiful wife to enjoy life before dying. There are three young people who want to take revenge and kill each other for a pile of wealth. All of them...
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By Quincy 2022-11-14 07:31:43
"The Director's Talk" "The Canterbury Tales"
This film is the second part of Pasolini's "Life Trilogy", the first being "Ten Days" and the last being "A Thousand and One Nights". These three films are based on the original works of world literature. The original work of "Decameron" is known as "The Song of Man", which is on par with Dante's "The Divine Comedy". The whole book runs through the red thread of humanism, criticizing the Catholic Church, praising the life of the world, praising love, condemning...
By Damien 2022-11-13 09:31:48
Narrate in leisure, liberate nature in paradox
I have always believed that the barriers to entry for Pierre Paul Pasolini's films are very high, because of his extensive knowledge, strange bad taste, dubbing and translation problems caused by the age, etc., I dare not watch it The notorious [120 Days of Sodom], this [Canterbury Tales], which together with [Ten Days Talk] and [One Thousand and One Nights] form the "Life Trilogy", is narrated in leisure and in seriousness Humor, revealing human nature in sexual liberation and bad...
By Charley 2022-10-02 20:55:03
Chaucer's background is the most important key
Based on the ancient English writings of Chaucer. As a visual animal, we must admit the desire to watch movies that was initially triggered by the director's Italian vision as always. The eight scattered narratives do not have much connection, and it is vaguely felt that there should be a deeper core... Turning the clock back to the Middle Ages under the rule of the church, the repression of sex/porn/eroticism/love and the awakening of lies, compared to the developed time at that time The...
By Dax 2022-09-17 11:22:20
My watchbook: The Canterbury Tales
Pasolini's most famous work, apart from the infamous "120 Days of Sodom", should be the "Trilogy of Life". "The Canterbury Tales" is the second part of the trilogy. Although it does not have the desperation and pervertedness of Sodom, it is also not much in terms of lewdness and ugliness. The movie chose seven stories from the original book to shoot, and behind the endless lust, it also vented the disclosure of ugly human nature. This is Pasolini, and his films never show any emotion, only...
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By Lisa 2023-09-16 18:07:03
20131106jtl Pasolini, Life Trilogy, Golden Bear Film. Many scenes are explicit and frantic, restoring the dirty and messy scenes in ancient times. They are all small jokes, mediocre and mundane, and life is in a variety of ways. Some are funny, some are exaggerated, urinating, farting, and sloppy body. The exotic atmosphere wraps the master's thoughts on desire and human relations. The soldering iron sticking in the butt is hilarious. 3.5
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By Kari 2023-09-16 11:08:15
A collection of fables and fairy tales like "One Thousand and One Nights", but the content scale is more adult-like. The lascivious city lord is cuckolded; the petty and cheap miller is slept with his wife and daughter; the ignorant rascal is punished; the young man who seduces a good woman gets his retribution; The picture of hell... The wretched and absurd world affairs and sentient beings vividly emerge. Superficial and deep. Samsung and a...
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By Opal 2023-09-16 07:16:47
A collection of shit stories. I like the first story, the little lover is very good-looking, and I still think about it Robert Plant is the same as Jeff Beck, which is especially funny. The funniest thing is that he played Chaucer himself, sitting in the same oil painting study, cuddling a cat and enjoying half being awakened by his wife's roar & the picture of the priest's hell at the end = the most useless collection of birds. There's finally an unsightly gay XO scene in this one. It's good...
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By Kiera 2023-07-03 14:37:50
At the end of the hell, the dance of the demons is enough to shock the world. The missionary is excreted from Satan's anus. The world in Pasolini's films is an ugly, unjust, absurd, bizarre, and calamity hell on earth....
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By Katheryn 2023-06-16 20:25:01
In the trilogy of life, this one has the most nudity and sex, and still maintains a eulogizing attitude towards sex, and the huge phallus imagery is everywhere. But it is also the most sinful. With more greed, betrayal, deceit, and revenge, the gloomy northern country seems to be more forced to make a living, desperate to satisfy sexual desires. Therefore, although there are many jokes, they just can't laugh. . The real shit and piss come and go again and again, and it smells like Sodom for 120...
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The Wife from Bath: There's nowhere in the Gospels that says we ought to stay virgins. Anyway, tell me, what were the genital organs made for at the creation? Not to lie dormant I suppose. And nobody's going to tell me they were just put there to piss through. Mark you, I use it for that as well. And every man must serve his wife in wedlock...
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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.
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Angel: Hey Satan! Lift up your tail and show us where you keep the friars in hell!
