| Barcode | 715515100311 |
| Release Date | 2012 |
| Purchase Date | 11/11/2016 |
| Purchase Price | $48.33 |
| Store | Amazon.com |
| Condition | New |
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| Hugh Griffith | Sir January | |
| Laura Betti | The Wife from Bath | |
| Ninetto Davoli | Perkin | |
| Franco Citti | The Devil | |
| Josephine Chaplin | May | |
| Alan Webb | Old Man | |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| J.P. Van Dyne | The Cook | |
| Vernon Dobtcheff | The Franklin | |
| Adrian Street | Fighter | |
| O.T. | Chief Witch-Hunter | |
| Derek Deadman | The Pardoner | |
| Nicholas Smith | Friar | |
| George Bethell Datch | Host of the Tabard | |
| Dan Thomas | Nicholas | |
| Michael Balfour | John the carpenter | |
| Jenny Runacre | Alison | |
| Peter Cain | Absalom | |
| Daniele Buckler | Witch Hunter | |
| John Francis Lane | Greedy friar | |
| Settimo Castagna | Angel | |
| Athol Coats | Rich homosexual | |
| Judy Stewart-Murray | Alice | |
| Tom Baker | Jenkin | |
| Oscar Fochetti | Damian | |
| Willoughby Goddard | Placebo | |
| Peter Stephens | Justinus | |
| Giuseppe Arrigio | Pluto | |
| Elisabetta Genovese | Prosperine | |
| Gordon King | Chancellor |
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| Producer | Alberto Grimaldi
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| Writer/Composer | Pier Paolo Pasolini
Geoffrey Chaucer |
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| Cinematography | Tonino Delli Colli
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| Music | Ennio Morricone
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This is the second in Pasolini's series of setting classic bawdy tales to film… In this case, he selected eight of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, including the infamous miller's tale and the incident with the red hot poker kiss…The tales revolve around a group of pilgrims who are journeying to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket of Canterbury… The trip is so boring that they begin telling each other stories that soon get obscene, gory and very sexy… Pasolini adds another motif to his visualization by placing Chaucer himself into the movie, periodically cutting to him writing at his desk... |
| Seen it: Yes 1. Prologue | |
| Seen it: Yes 2. The Merchants Tale | |
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Where an aging merchant loses his sight, allowing his young bride to join her lover in secret.
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| Seen it: Yes 3. The Friars Tale | |
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This chapter contains the memorable scene where two men are caught in an inn bedroom having sex. One is able to bribe his way out of trouble, but the other, poorer man is less fortunate: he is tried and convicted of sodomy — it does not occur to the judge that such an act cannot be committed by one person alone — and is sentenced to death. As a foretaste of Hell, he is burned alive atop an iron grill.
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| Seen it: Yes 4. The Cooks Tale | |
| Seen it: Yes 5. The Miller's Tale | |
| Seen it: Yes 6. The Wife of Bath's Tale | |
| Seen it: Yes 7. The Reeve's Tale | |
| Seen it: Yes 8. The Pardoner's Tale | |
| Seen it: Yes 9. The Summoner's Tale | |
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A monk is trying to receive personal benefit in exchange for extreme unction to a dying man. Later an angel leads him to Hell, were we see devils shitting out friars.
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| Seen it: Yes 10. Epilogue | |
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Where Pasolini, in the role of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, writes his closing comment on the stories, slowly spelling out: “Here end the Canterbury tales, told only for the pleasure of telling them.”
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