THE CANTERBURY TALES
ItalyFrance, 1972
Original title: I racconti di Canterbury
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini, from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Art director: Dante Ferretti. Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli.
Director assistant: Sergio Citti, Umberto Angelucci. Editor: Nino Baragli. Music selected by Pier Paolo Pasolini in collaboration with Ennio Morricone. Sound manager: Primiano Muratore. Costume designer: Danilo Donati. Cast and characters: Hugh Griffith (Sir January), Laura Betti (the woman of Bath), Ninetto Davoli (Perkin the fool), Franco Citti (ithe Devil, Alan Web (the old man, Josephine Chaplin (May), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Geoffrey Chaucer). Production: PEA Produzioni Europee Associate (Roma). Lenght: 110’.
Format:DCP. Source: Cineteca di Bologna under licence from Park Circus.
Original version. Subtitles: English
Fourteenth-century England recreated by Pasolini inspired by eight stories by Geoffrey Chaucer, played by the director himself.
“I want to have fun and have fun. I want to revive a popular world that is being completely lost and I want to give viewers back, through my colourful historical reconstructions, the taste of the image. ” (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Saturday 30 April 2022, h. 9:00 pm
