Comizi d'amore (1965)

Title: Love Meetings

Original Title: Comizi d'amore

Release Date: 1965-07-05

Status: Released

Rating: 8.3/10 (from 272 votes)

Language: IT

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Arco Film

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.