Friday, June 23, 2017
174 - The Canterbury Tales, 1972, Italy. Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The Canterbury Tales is the second in Pasolini's Trilogy of Life.
Like The Decameron, set in Italy, Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales, set in England, generally follows some of the stories from the source material while adapting them and adding to them.
The production design--landscapes, wardrobe, colors--is lush and vibrant.
The scenes are shown in long shots and wide shots.
The actors are committed to their roles and robust in their ribaldry.
The stories go further than the previous film, The Decameron, in their appropriation of their respective source book.
Pasolini himself plays Geoffrey Chaucer, as he did Giotto's pupil in The Decameron.
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