Love Meetings

(1965)

★ 8.2 IMDb · 299 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1965

Runtime: 88 мин

Country: Italy

Director: Пьер Паоло Пазолини

Cast: Пьер Паоло Пазолини, Lello Bersani, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti, Peppino Di Capri, Ezio Pascutti, William Negri, Carlo Furlanis, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Camilla Cederna

Plot

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 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.