#0000F3: PASOLINI, Pier Paolo: Love Meetings (1964)

PASOLINI, Pier Paolo (Italy)
Love Meetings [1961]

Spine #0000F3

Blu-ray

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.

92 minutes
Monaural
Black and White
In Italian
1:85:1
Criterion Release 2023

Director/Writer

Pier Paolo Pasolini was 42 when he directed Love Meetings.

Other Pasolini films in the Collection:

#0000F1: Accattone (1961)
#0000F2/#236: Mamma Roma (1962)
#0000F4: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
#0000F5: The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
#0000F6: Oedipus Rex (1967)
#0000F7/#1013: Teorema (1968)
#0000F8: Porcile (1969)
#0000F9: Medea (1969)
#632: The Decameron (1971)
#633: The Canterbury Tales (1972)
#634: Arabian Nights (1974)
#17: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)

The Film

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Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Commentary

Video tribute

Documentary 1

Documentary 2

Documentary 3

Controversial altered ending

Theatrical trailer

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

99

By Director

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