The Canterbury Tales

(I racconti di Canterbury, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy/France 1972, 112 min., 35mm)

Period Dramas. Pasolini worked with darker hues here than in the rest of his Trilogy of Life to adapt Geoffrey Chaucer’s ribald epic. Capturing meticulously re-created settings in southern England, Tonino Delli Colli’s rich cinematography incorporates the visual aesthetics of the great painters Giotto di Bondone, Peter Bruegel, and Hieronymus Bosch. The Canterbury Tales is the second part of the Trilogy of Life, which also includes The Decameron (screening June 7) and Arabian Nights (June 10).