Love Meetings (1964)

Original title

Comizi d'amore

Directed by

Vincenzo Cerami, Pier Paolo Pasolini

Genre

documentary film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

VM18

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 293 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Pier Paolo Pasolini travels around Italy asking people about their views on sex, marriage, and gender roles. The film records real conversations with ordinary Italians from different regions and social classes.

observationalconversationalthoughtfulunvarnishedcandidearthydatedprovocative

What happens

Love Meetings (Italian: Comizi d'amore) is a 1964 feature-length documentary, which was shot by Italian writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who also acts as the interviewer, appearing in many of the film's scenes. It was premiered in Locarno Film Festival on 26 July 1964. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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