The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales (1972)

Genres - Comedy, Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Sex Comedy, Abstract Film, Period Film, Satire, Religious Comedy  |   Release Date - Jul 2, 1972 (USA - Unknown), Dec 19, 1979 (USA)  |   Run Time - 109 min.  |   Countries - France, Italy  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Kristie Hassen

Italian director Pier Pasolini tells four of the Chaucer tales in this graphic and satirical picture that chronicles the 14th-century's social, sexual, and religious standards in England. In Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, this second entry follows The Decameron and precedes The Arabian Nights.

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eroticism, folk-tales, history, Middle-Ages, romance, sex