Love Meetings

Love Meetings (Italian: Comizi d'amore) is a 1965 feature-length documentary, shot by Italian writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who also acts as the interviewer, appearing in many scenes. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[1]

Comizi d'amore
-Love Meetings-
Film poster
Directed byPier Paolo Pasolini
Written byPier Paolo Pasolini
Produced byAlfredo Bini
StarringPier Paolo Pasolini
Alberto Moravia
Giuseppe Ungaretti
CinematographyMario Bernardo
Tonino Delli Colli
Edited byNino Baragli
Release date
1965
Running time
89 min
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Content

Typical for him, Pasolini's subject is sex: he questions representatives from a variety of social brackets on topics such as virginity, prostitution, homosexuality and sex education. The interviews are made in Italy. The overarching themes are sexual ignorance, confusion and conservatism. The film is divided into four large parts, called "Ricerche" (literally, "searches"), plus a brief prologue, in which Pasolini asks children in a poor area where babies come from (the responses include "flowers," "the stork," "Jesus and God," and "my uncle") and an epilogue, in which Pasolini recites one of his poems about marriage. Also included are conversations with acclaimed author and his friend, Alberto Moravia and psychologist Cesare Musatti, or with poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, or with a group of three women journalists, including Oriana Fallaci.[2]

Structure

The film is divided into various parts depending on the topics covered or the various areas of Italy where the interviews were filmed.

First half
  • Search 1 - Large Italian-style mixed fried food. Where we see a sort of traveling salesman who goes around Italy to survey Italians on their sexual tastes: and this not to launch a product, but with the most sincere intention of understanding and reporting faithfully.
    • How do Italians welcome the idea of films of this genre?
    • How do they behave when faced with the idea of the importance of sex in life?
  • Search 2 - Disgust or pity?

Second half
  • Search 3 - The real Italy?
    • Rallies on Roman beaches or sex as sex
    • Rallies on the beaches of Milan or sex as a hobby
    • Rallies on the southern beaches or sex as an honor
    • Rallies at the lido or sex as a success
    • Rallies on the (popular) Tuscan beaches or sex as pleasure
    • Rallies on the Tuscan beaches (bourgeois) or sex as a duty
  • Search 4 - From below and from the depths

Bibliography
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini (2015). Comizi d'amore. Contrasto. ISBN 978-88-69-65617-0

References
  1. "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  2. "Love meetings, comizi d'amore". jclarkmedia.com. 12 April 2003. Retrieved 5 June 2018.


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