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Love Meetings

  • July 1965
  • 1hr

    28mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Pier Paolo Pasolini,

    Starring

    Lello Bersani,

    Cesare Musatti,

    Peppino Di Capri,

    Ezio Pascutti

    ...

    Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where do babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.