Pasolini's maddened stories

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Movie
German title Pasolini's maddened stories
Original title I racconti di Canterbury
Country of production Italy , France
original language English
Publishing year 1972
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
script Geoffrey Chaucer (story)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
production Alberto Grimaldi
music Ennio Morricone
camera Tonino Delli Colli
cut Nino Baragli
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Decameron

Successor  →
Erotic stories from 1001 nights

Pasolini's maddened stories (Original: I racconti di Canterbury ) is a film by the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1972. The film is an adaptation of eight stories from the poetry Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer . It was released on DVD in Germany under the title Canterbury Tales .

action

The film consists of eight stories, which are introduced by a prologue. In this is Chaucer (portrayed by Pasolini) with other pilgrims on their way to Canterbury . While hiking, the men and women, inspired by the writer, tell the usual stories of adultery, family quarrels, of voluptuous desires and quarrels between cunning priests and naive monastery sisters.

criticism

Wolfram Schütte sees Pasolini at its artistic low point, since the film is stylistically even more inconsistent, even more confused and told more primitively than his Decameron . The film service saw Pasolini with this film on the level of Brummer and Comrade. The lexicon of international films also judged: "Of all parts of the trilogy, this one is the least likely to convey political and emancipatory content using the means of entertainment cinema."

background

In the second part of the trilogy of life , shot on the original locations in southern England, the display of erotic play is complemented by the dimension of guilt and depravity of the human being. The devil , for example, is reflected in one of the stories in the wickedness of people. In one scene, Pasolini has incorporated an homage to the British comedian Charlie Chaplin , whose daughter Josephine plays the merchant bride May.

The other two films in the trilogy are Decameron from 1970 and Erotic Stories from 1001 Nights from 1974.

Prices

The International Film Festival 1972 in Berlin the film won the Golden Bear .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfram Schütte, in: Pier Paolo Pasolini (= Hanser Reihe Film. Vol. 12), Munich 1977, p. 188.
  2. Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen, Norbert Stresau : Lexicon of Fantasy Films. 650 films from 1900 to 1986 . Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-02273-4 , p. 385.
  3. Pasolini's maddened stories. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used