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Canterbury Tales (The)
Original Title
I Racconti di Canterbury- Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Writer: Geoffrey Chaucer; Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
CGiii Comment
It is Pasolini - therefore, you can expect lush, colourful sequences with atrocious acting, gratuitous nudity, and bad dubbing.
If this is your thing....then, you won't be disappointed.
There are 8 tales - as loosely based on Chaucer's work as an adaption can possibly be.
There are some well-known English-speaking actors, in bizarre parts, speaking Italian - strange.
No-one shines in this monstrosity.
Pasolini did not push boundaries - he simply fed his ego and, really, it is just too much to swallow.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
Cast & Characters
Hugh Griffith as Sir January;
Laura Betti as The Wife from Bath;
Ninetto Davoli as Perkin;
Franco Citti as The Devil;
Josephine Chaplin as May;
Alan Webb as Old Man;
Pier Paolo Pasolini as Geoffrey Chaucer;
J.P. Van Dyne as The Cook;
Vernon Dobtcheff as The Franklin;
Adrian Street as Fighter;
O.T. as Chief Witch-Hunter;
Derek Deadman as The Pardoner;
Nicholas Smith as Friar;
George Bethell Datch as Host of the Tabard;
Dan Thomas as Nicholas