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The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) is a 1972 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval narrative poem. The second picture of Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life,” following The Decameron, won the Golden Bear at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Jul 16, 2015 · An exploration of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1972 film I racconti di Canterbury/The Canterbury Tales reveals that medievalist poetics need not be restricted to literary responses to the premodern, but can also be found in cinematic representations (Pasolini, 1972).
- Louise D’Arcens
- 2015
I racconti di Canterbury can be thought of as ethnogaphy and Pasolini as a social anthropologist recording the customs of a newly discovered outlandish people, obscure, unique, unknown, the Pasolini tribe. His film is crowded with persons, each different by social class, by appearance, gesture, speech, comportment and bizarre customs seldom ...
Jun 25, 2024 · The Canterbury Tales (Italian: I racconti di Canterbury ) is a 1972 medieval erotic black comedy 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 Nig.
The Canterbury Tales: Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti. Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
This article reconsiders the periodization that informs contemporary film theory and analysis by focusing on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s I racconti di Canterbury, an adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini 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, which he ...
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