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The Canterbury Tales is a 1972 Italian medieval erotic black comedy anthology film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on the medieval narrative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. The second film in Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life", preceded by The Decameron and followed by Arabian Nights, it won the Golden Bear at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival.
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To contemporary audiences accustomed to rigid genre boundaries, it may seem peculiar that a film featuring graphic nudity, scatological humour, and a scene in which Satan defecates corrupt monks could win the top prize at a major international film festival. Yet, the early 1970s were a uniquely tumultuous period in cinema, where the walls separating arthouse ambition from commercial exploitation were remarkably poro…More
