Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s delirious The Canterbury Tales brings to the screen eight of Geoffrey Chaucer’s erotic tales. Shot in England and offering a remarkably earthy re-creation of the medieval era, this film is an endlessly imaginative and vivid work of merry blasphemy, featuring glimpses of Chaucer (played by Pasolini himself) penning his famous work.
WINNER – Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival 1972
"Robust and smart, much like its more expansive source material."
- New Times
Tuesday 13th September
111 min
R18+
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Film Festival
Italian, Latin, Gaelic with English subtitles, English
Chauvel Cinema
