Above all, this film is good fun. Pasolini maintains the freewheeling don't give a hoot attitude of Chaucher's poem. The film is damn erotic while also capturing the idyllic life in medieval England. Back then, they did not even have books to get distracted by. The only entertainment was sex. And there is a lot of sex in this film. A lot of toilet humor too. Next time somebody looks down upon toilet humor (people farting into each other's faces and sticking knives up each other's buttocks), show them this film. I had read the poem as part of my English literature course and I always knew THE REEVE's TALE would make a great film.
(7.5/10)
(7.5/10)