Join us on Tuesday 18th of June from 7pm (film starts at 7:15pm) in MRB 05 (Screen 1) for a screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Canterbury Tales (1972). The film is 2 hours 2 minutes long so the screening should finish around 9:20pm.
Pasolini was a major and highly controversial Italian postwar director who in this film uses streams of consciousness and absurdity to reimagine some of the vignettes from Geoffrey Chaucer’s foundational work of 15th century English literature, The Canterbury Tales. With his signature mix of eroticism and religion, Pasolini stays true to his fascinations in this, the second part of his “Trilogy of Life”, which also comprises Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Arabian Nights.
Vincent Canby for the New York Times observes that “Mr. Pasolini himself shows up from time to time as Chaucer, sitting in front of a writing desk, smiling unpleasantly as he takes quill in hand to record yet another failed joke.”