Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Based on the short stories The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Buy the book on Amazon.
The Canterbury Tales is one of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s exuberant literary adaptations, full of sex, bodies and earthy humour. The film is deliberately bawdy and episodic, and its queer interest lies more in Pasolini’s sensibility and casting than in a single gay storyline.
Two 25-year-old men meet by chance, fall deeply in love, and are abruptly separated by an unexpected event. For the next thirty years, they hold onto the hope of reuniting.
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The Canterbury Tales is one of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s exuberant literary adaptations, full of sex, bodies and earthy humour. The film is deliberately bawdy and episodic, and its queer interest lies more in Pasolini’s sensibility and casting than in a single gay storyline.
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