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Love Meetings
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Title: Love Meetings

Release Date: 5 Jul 1965

Runtime: 1h 28m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Arco Film

Production Companies: Arco Film

Overview: 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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 8.3 (270 votes)

Cast

  • Self - Interviewer (uncredited): Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Narrator (voice): Lello Bersani
  • Self - Writer: Alberto Moravia
  • Self - Psychoanalyst: Cesare Musatti
  • Self - Singer: Peppino Di Capri
  • Self - Football Player: Ezio Pascutti
  • Self - Football Player: William Negri
  • Self - Football Player: Carlo Furlanis
  • Self - Poet: Giuseppe Ungaretti
  • Self - Writer: Camilla Cederna
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