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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- IN
- DVD006756
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Canterbury Tales, The
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo
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The Criterion Collection, 2012
- Title:
- Canterbury Tales, The
- Alternate Title:
- I Racconti Di Canterbury
- Director:
- Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Production Co:
- Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA); Les Productions Artistes Associés
- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
111 minutes.  
- Country:
- Italy, France
- Year:
- 1972
- Publisher:
- The Criterion Collection, 2012
- Language:
- Italian or English language with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Comedy, Fantasy, Sexuality
- Notes:
- A digital restoration. The second film in Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” series and based on the classic Chaucer tales of the same name. Set in England in the Middle Ages, stories of peasants, noblemen, clergy and demons are interwoven with brief scenes from Chaucer's home life and experiences implied to be the basis for the Canterbury Tales. Each episode does not take the form of a story told by different pilgrim, as is the case in Chaucer's stories, but simply appear in sequence, seemingly without regard for the way that the tales relate to one another in the original text. All the stories are linked to the arrival of a group of pilgrims at Canterbury, among whom is the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, played by Pasolini himself.
Supplemental materials include: an interview with film scholar Sam Rohdie; PASOLINI AND THE SECRET HUMILIATION OF CHAUCER, a documentary by Roberto Chiesi about The Canterbury Tales (2006, 47 m); interviews with art director Dante Ferretti and composer Ennio Morricone; trailers; and an information booklet, available at checkout.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |