I racconti di Canterbury [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / Racconti di Canterbury (Motion picture) Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Alberto Grimaldi presenta un film di Pier Paolo Pasolini ; una produzione PEA Produzioni Europee Associate s.a.s. Roma ; prodotto da Alberto Grimaldi ; scritto e diretto da Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Josephine Chaplin, Alan Webb. Based on "The Canterbury tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. Originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Released as part of 4-disc set "Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of life" with: The Decameron and The Arabian nights plus supplements disc. Accompanying booklet (63 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.) includes cast lists and credits for the three feature films and several essays by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Colin MacCabe. Special features: Interview with film scholar Sam Rohdie; the 2006 documentary Pasolini and the secret humiliation of Chaucer (47 min.); English language inserts; trailers.
Summary:
A selection of stories from Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales". Shot in England, it offers an earthy re-creation of the medieval era. From the story of a nobleman struck blind after marrying a much younger and promiscuous bride, to a climactic trip to a hell populated by friars and demons (surely one of the most outrageously conceived and realized sequences ever committed to film), this is a work of merry blasphemy, framed by Pasolini's portrayal of Chaucer himself.
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