Love Meetings

Love Meetings (1965) blends Documentary elements. Top cast includes Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lello Bersani, and Alberto Moravia. The narrative builds around escalating stakes, urgent decisions, and action-driven momentum.

Actor: Pier Paolo Pasolini

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.