Canterbury Tales, The

Aroview: Pasolini interprets four of Geoffrey Chaucer’s tales in the second of the director's medieval trilogy, set in a bawdy, perverse and dark vision of Olde England.

Considered at the time the least successful of the trilogy, today, in the age of GUMMO this now seems underrated in its fearless vulgarity and warts and all cast. Dispensing with Chaucer’s framing story this can’t avoid some disjointedness in the telling, but the tales of the Pardoner, the Cook, the Wife of Bath and the Miller are transgressive and fascinating.