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Should you watch Love Meetings?

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Love Meetings

Documentary · 1965

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.

The sides of Love Meetings

  • Pasolini with a microphone across Italy
  • Children asked where babies come from
  • Questions on divorce, virginity and homosexuality

Love Meetings is good for you if…

  • you like ordinary people answering questions they never get asked.
  • you want to see Italy in the sixties, torn between old and new.
  • you like interviews where the hesitations say as much as the answers.

Love Meetings is bad for you if…

  • you won't read subtitles.
  • you find black and white documentaries dated.

About: sexuality · tradition · modernity · morality

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