Performance

I racconti di Canterbury (The Canterbury Tales)

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Now screening at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1972 *I racconti di Canterbury (The Canterbury Tales)* reframes Chaucer as a sequence of earthy fables about desire, greed, and social rank. Pasolini also appears on screen, folding authorship into the spectacle and reminding viewers that storytelling is a form of power. In New York, the film registers as part of MoMA’s long-running role in placing European art cinema in a public, curatorial context. Its bawdy humor doubles as a blunt inventory of moral hypocrisy.