LOVE MEETINGS
Italy, 1964
Original title: Comizi d’amore
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Story: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cinematographer: Mario Bernardo, Tonino Delli Colli. Interviewer and narrator: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Editing: Nino Baragli. Music coordinator: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Interlocutor: Lello Bersani. Featuring: Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti, Camilla Cederna, Oriana Fallaci, Adele Cambria, Peppino di Capri, Giuseppe Ungaretti. Production: Arco Film (Roma). Length: 92’.
Format: DCP. Source: Cineteca di Bologna under licence from Compass Films.
Original version. Subtitles: English
Restoration in 4K by Cineteca di Bologna in its L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna, in conjuction with Compass Film and with the support of MiBACT.
Investigation film commented by Pasolini, Moravia and Musatti on love and sex in the Italy of the time. By interviewing Italians, from intellectuals to peasants, from North to South, Pasolini carries on a cinéma-vérité of sociological value and civil passion.
“To the group walking or sunbathing, Pasolini holds out his microphone as if in passing: all of a sudden he asks a question about ‘love’, on that uncertain ground where sex, couple, pleasure, family meet , betrothal with its customs, prostitution with its tariffs. Someone makes up his own mind, answers hesitating a little, takes courage, speaks for the others; they approach, approve or mumble, their arms on their shoulders, face to face: laughter, tenderness, a little fever circulate rapidly among those bodies that pile up or brush against each other. Bodies that speak of themselves with greater restraint and distance the more lively and warm the contact is: adults speak overlapping and talk, young people speak rapidly and intertwine. Pasolini the interviewer fades: Pasolini the director looks with his ears wide open. You cannot appreciate the document if you are more interested in what is said than in the mystery that is not uttered. ” (Michel Foucault)
Sunday 01 May 2022, h. 3:00 pm
