1964 | Italy | Fiction

Comizi d'amore (Love Meetings)

  • Italian 92 mins
  • Director | Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Writer | Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Producer | Alfredo Bini

STATUS: Released

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Let’s talk about sex. In this radically engaged and engaging documentary, Pier Paolo Pasolini takes to the streets, town squares, beaches, factories, and universities of 1960s Italy to solicit everyday citizens’ thoughts on a host of hot-button subjects, including sex work, gender equality, homosexuality, and divorce (then illegal in Italy). What emerges is both a kaleidoscopic cross section of faces and places—from the industrialized cities of the North to the rural villages of the South—and an incisive portrait of a society where, despite the rapid modernization brought on by the postwar “economic miracle,” hypocrisy, repression, and conformism still hold sway.

Sexuality Society Documentary Culture Equality
Film Organizations
The Criterion Collection
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