The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · Cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli
NC-17111 min53 frames
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From the team that gave you "Decameron", Geoffrey Chaucer's Lustiest Tales of Merrie Olde England!
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What is The Canterbury Tales about?
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
The Canterbury Tales is a 1972 Italian medieval erotic black comedy 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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Sampled across 53 frames, the coverage of The Canterbury Tales leans on close-ups (30% of the sample) and wide compositions (25%). Cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli keeps 68% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 72% of the frames play in daylight. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Canterbury Tales (1972) are #35312c, #55504c, #897a6c, #463930, #534939, #241c18 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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