The Canterbury Tales [Blu-ray] [1972] UK

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini followed his version of 'The Decameron' with this bawdy and scandalous adaptation of Chaucer's tales. Officially declared obscene by the Italian courts, the film is a catalogue of different sexual acts, including flagellation, voyeurism and sleeping with watermelons. It includes elements of eight different Chaucer tales - those of the Merchant, Friar, Cook, Miller, Wife of Bath, Reeve, Pardoner and Summoner - and ends with Pasolini's celebrated vision of hell.

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