Name: The Canterbury Tales
Brand: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BFIV2096

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Discs

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Film GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-01-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Trinity Creative Partnership

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5035673020968

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1 / DVD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Genre GB

World Cinema

Label GB

In the early 1970s, the great Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom) brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of premodern world literature - Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (often known as The Arabian Nights) - and in doing so created his most uninhibited and extravagant work, the Trilogy of Life.

The second part of the trilogy, The Canterbury Tales plunges with gusto into Chaucer's dark and bawdy stories, which celebrate almost every conceivable sexual act with a rich, earthy humour.

Pasolini himself has a cameo appearance in this playful and provocative film, presented here in a new restored transfer from the original negative.

The Canterbury Tales

Film GB